Word: whispering
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...President of the U.S. develops a slight cold, a few sensation-hungry newsmen usually mix the germs with rumors and conclude that it is something far worse. Dwight Eisenhower has had his share of the usual plague of rumors. Before he got the Republican nomination last year, the whisper (planted by his political enemies) went out that he had heart trouble. A slight touch of food poisoning last spring was quickly diagnosed by the dopesters as a stomach ulcer. When he bruised his elbow last August, the story soon got around that Ike was showing signs of falling apart...
...another time by a foot in hotels. Nonsense, retorted John. It was Esperanza's own "excessive drinking" that caused her to fall sometimes-and then she would blame her bruises on him. Esperanza said that John also cursed her (she repeated some of his words in a whisper to the deadpan judge) and once doused her with rubbing alcohol. Well, snapped Wayne, Esperanza neglected her household duties. Esperanza then told how John had once returned from a Honolulu stag party with a stripteaser's "large black bite" on his neck. And after one studio party, he came home...
...Emerson Hall, they still whisper when they speak of Smushwick. It seems Smushwick got his Ph.D. in Social Relations in only one year, and held down a car washing job besides...
...Council member who goads the crowd against the blind man and the girl. In the play's climax, Helen, played by Connaught O'Connel, stands at the edge of the stage speaking to the horse and its Greek occupants. In a voice that barely rises above a whisper, Miss O'Connel gives tremendous power to MacLeish's lyric lines...
Master Finley recalls, "When the Navy fellows first came here, many looked like they had just come out of the S.S. Oklahoma boiler room. Nock would come up to these boys, whisper a little Latin phrase in their cars, and bob off down Dunster Street. The boys knew then that they were at Harvard...