Word: whispering
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...Harvard CRIMSON was most generous and succeeded in making me look dramatic to myself, no small intoxication when you're my age. It pains me, therefore, to be forced to make one correction. I did not, unfortunately, box ten rounds with Jose Torres. It was rather--I whisper it--three rounds, and I was considerably tired at the end, although in no danger because Torres is a fine friend and took great care of me. In fact, I might have been in more trouble going two with my sister...
...start down the Blackstone sidewalk, there are turnips to the left, genoa salami to the right. The meat shops go in for variety. Capicollo. Mortadella. Proscuttino. Pepperoni. Eight different kinds of salami, including carando milanese and d'annuzio. May we suggest some Bunker Hill Baloney? The butcher men whisper loudly like dark corner procurers. "Hey, buddy, you want some nice chops? How 'bout it? I got some nice steak in here. You want some nice steak...
...meeting in Washington last week with a demand for "reciprocity" from the North in exchange for any Allied reduction in the fighting. But the prospects that Hanoi will accept a mutual step-down are as remote as ever. "We can't get the other side even to whisper to us behind the hand," complained Rusk...
...Even a Whisper. With Hanoi obviously unwilling to talk-or even whisper-the U.S. significantly stepped up its bombing attacks last week in an effort to reduce the North's capacity to send troops and weapons into the South. Air Force pilots destroyed a 60-car freight train and repeatedly struck an army training center near Hanoi-on one occasion getting embroiled in dogfights with 17 MIGs that cost one U.S. plane and possibly five of the enemy...
...hippie enters. Down the aisle with hair to his shoulders. The six stare. "Jesus Christ." They whisper. They laugh...