Word: whispering
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...magazines be withdrawn from the shelves, or at least withheld from persons under 18 years of ago. At first, members concentrated chiefly on pocket editions--the 25 cent variety. Lately, however, it has moved into the sphere of the comic books and has banned such magazines as "Wink" and "Whisper...
...child, Claire often woke up crying. She was afraid of wasps and of crossing a street. A cousin remembers that Claire "had a thing about being shy. She would ask for the butter in almost a whisper." Before Nazi bombs began raining on London in World War II, nine-year-old Claire and her mother were evacuated -first to the southern coast of England, then...
...candidate travels hard enough, he doesn't need to speak above a whisper to be heard the length (96 miles) and breadth (35 miles) of Delaware. It's the handshakes that count. John Williams shook hands hard and beat his lawyer, Senator James Tunnell, by 12,000 votes, a respectable margin in Delaware...
...cascade of graceful and sophisticated gestures, all with a slight smile of incredible self-possession. The oldest was 13. The male dancers were much older. In one all-male number, 30 men sat in a circle on the floor, shaking their shoulders in unison, and began a syncopated whisper that worked up into something like a football cheer, while a clown leapt and postured in their midst. In the grand finale a benevolent dragon routed a wicked witch to the deep delight of both dancers and audience...
...Next comes Paris, which gives Director Henry King a chance to create an evocative scene of a hot jazz concert of the 1920s, featuring the alto sax of Benny Carter. Here, Peck finds liquid-eyed Ava Gardner who admits to sometimes "posing in the altogether" and is forced to whisper such sentiments as "Will you be kind to me? I think I'm a little afraid of you." Finally, there is blonde Countess Hildegarde Neff who swims, sculpts and is described as frigid, even though she is just as insistent about her passion for Peck as all the other...