Word: whispering
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...mink-trimmed wedding gown (designed by Balenciaga and executed in his own Madrid apartment with all the secrecy of a new-car prototype in Detroit) caught on a chair, she came close to tears. Proud and protective in his lieutenant general's uniform, Baudouin leaned over to whisper a soothing word, and soon the royal couple were joking with the burgomaster of Brussels about the 20 papers the bride and groom were called upon to sign...
Combining political savvy and a quick sense of humor, Herbert Claiborne Pell, retired states-man and party manager, is a master at the aside--in a stage whisper. To sit next to him is the only way to catch the whole show. His asides presented a description of the political fever that is apparently catching in the Pell family...
John Steigman, Pennsylvania head coach, was hardly the picture of contentment after Saturday's game. Between puffs of his cigar, the losing coach gave short, flat replies in a tight-lipped whisper to reporters' questions at the post-game press conference...
...Nixon ran slam-bang into one of the biggest, loudest crowds that ever greeted a candidate. Perspiring throngs clawed and pushed at him. Nixon placards rose and spun in the humid air, confetti cascaded down from hotel rooms, and the traffic din from Lake Shore Drive fell to a whisper under the tumult in the streets. Squeezing through the tight throngs, Nixon found safety at last in his Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel suite. But it was a safety of sorts. Beneath the clamor and the cheers lay a snorting Republican rebellion that threatened the future not only of Nixon himself...
...audience of miners in Ravenswood. As Ted Kennedy recalls it, "I was saying to the audience, 'Do you want a man who will give the country leadership? Do you want a man who has vigor and vision?', when Jack took the microphone and said in a hoarse whisper, I would just like to tell my brother that you cannot be elected President until you are 35 years of age.' So back to the boondocks I went...