Word: muttering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Debate. While the Welshman's stream of words eddied around him, Clem Attlee chewed his pipe, taking it out of his mouth only to mutter: "Most embarrassing, most embarrassing." Attlee left it to his right-wing followers to tear Bevan down, and they did, though messily. "Why did you once take me for a walk down the corridor and say we must get rid of Mr. Attlee?" one woman M.P. demanded of Nye Bevan. "That's a wicked lie," Bevan shot back...
...surprised by the extent of the altitude poisoning, coaches and trainers stood about in helpless confusion while distance runners ran out of gas, staggered into the infield talking to themselves, their eyes rolling above contorted faces. Eventually, a safe supply of oxygen bottles appeared, and U.S. officials began to mutter that next time their team ought to be at the games site early enough to get accustomed to the altitude. (Next time, 1959, the games will probably be in Cleveland. Altitude...
...from reaching the" Warsaw uprising. One day in 1944, Bulganin reported to U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman that a certain U.S. officer had been overheard cursing President Roosevelt and voicing his hope that the President would be defeated. When Harriman appeared unexcited by the tip, Bulganin was overheard to mutter in Russian: "Harriman must be one of the conspirators...
...Alice, speaks her lines more clearly than most of the cast, who occasionally bellow or slur Carroll's wit right out of the range of their three-to-ten-year-old audience. But thanks to Thomas Whedon's direction, even when dialogue and lyrics fail to overcome the steady mutter of the junior critics, the pantomime and by-play are sufficient to keep them entertained...
...N.A.A.C.P., Delaware's Vice Chancellor William Marvel ruled that the ten Negroes "have a clear and legal right" to attend the Milford school. But that decision was obviously not the end of the affair. At week's end, Milford's white citizens were beginning to mutter again, and Bryant Bowles was still around to keep them aroused. "When the Negroes walk in," said he. "the whites will walk...