Word: whispering
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...Surrounding Hawks. Hovering around Naguib at every press conference, watching him, watching the reporters, and watching each other like hawks are three or four tough, determined-looking young officers. They do not hesitate to cut Naguib off in mid-sentence to whisper advice, at times even take over touchy questions and answers themselves, leaving him with his mouth wide open. After one such passage last week, a reporter asked: "Is that what you think too, General?" "Yes," smiled Naguib tolerantly...
...beauty. Last week he "listened" to a prehistoric plant open to morning sunlight. Smiling till his tiny eyes all but disappeared in his face, he had bad news for sentimentalists: in spite of all that the poets have said, even a 2,000-year-old lotus blossoms without a whisper...
...censors were sitting tight on the story of the intrigue that felled Egypt's most promising Premier in years. Like all suppressed stories, it became garbled and sensationalized as it spread by whisper, but this week the outline was coming clear...
...first it was a rustle of clubroom rumor, then a whisper in the galleries of the House of Commons. By last week it was a babble of discontent among the younger Tories: "Something should be done about Churchill...
...when he swore several times that he had no espionage material, then reversed himself and produced a four-foot stack of secret Government telegrams and typescripts. Says he: "I never asked for immunity. Nor did anyone at any time ever offer me immunity, even by a hint or a whisper." For weeks it was widely thought that Chambers, not Hiss, would be indicted...