Word: whispered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tapping fingers, shined shoes, winding knobs, leaning-all pointed at her like some mad animal . . . like a gun. All through a blue funk from glowing cigarettes. the faces are dark and there is a menacing murmuring. She had descended into the pit and her words rush out in a whisper of extreme unction...
...nationwide Moratorium has come and gone, with its excellent emphasis on peace. But one wonders why so many people only protested the U.S. involvement yet said not a whisper about Hanoi's atrocities past or present. Maybe, in order to balance the books a bit, there ought to be a second Moratorium Day showing support for this nation's attempts to secure an honorable and just peace...
...cook. In fact, more important for the cook than for the cooking." Thus armed, pot and potted, Alice's disciples are advised merely to improvise and advertise. "If you tell people that what you're cooking is absolutely fantastic-if you squeeze their arm and whisper in their ear that this meal is the greatest yet-they're going to love it. They'll never suspect that that strange taste in the potatoes is just that you've burned them...
...that time of the morning," Graham noted, "even a whisper disturbs the peace...
...well-read line of English literary men should really be traced back to Dr. Samuel Johnson, whose Lives of the Poets began the great industry of literary criticism and gossip. But what began with a bang (Johnson was capable of no lesser noise) is clearly ending in a whisper. Between Johnson and Eliot lay the great age of the literary thunderheads, roughly dated between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the onset of World War I. Then boomed and flashed the resounding literary quarterlies, the influential journalists, the great prophet-critics like Coleridge, Carlyle, Walter Bagehot and Arnold. Such...