Word: whispering
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...feelings are disturbed by weak flesh and childish imaginings: he is kneeling, and his knees and back hurt, disturbing the purity of his devotions; he remembers his silly effort at self-mortification through eating worms; he imagines himself upon the cross and hearing the school's best athlete whisper, "Jesus that kid's got guts." And dismayed because every other thought seems tinctured with pride, he fervently prays: "O God forgive me! forgive me if you can stand...
...pleaded guilty. As a machinist, he said, he was assigned by the Army to Los Alamos' Manhattan Project in 1944, where he worked in the machine shop turning out apparatus from sketches drawn up by the scientists. In a voice that often dropped away to a whisper, Greenglass testified that he had no idea what he was working on until his wife came to visit him on their wedding anniversary in November 1944-eight months before the first atomic bomb exploded at Alamogordo and at a time when security regulations were so strict that Los Alamos employees were required...
...Washington, "inside sources" frequently whisper that Harry Truman knows no more about the Korean war than General MacArthur chooses to tell him. Closer to the truth is the fact that the "sources" know no more about a peripatetic, crusty major general named Frank E. Lowe than the President chooses to tell them. Since last August, 65-year-old General Lowe, with Douglas MacArthur's cooperation, has been serving as Harry Truman's "private eye" in Japan and Korea...
...Kentucky, a startled observer reported: "In the first twenty-four hours the poet was seen to rescue several toads from wells into which they had stumbled; to feed from a bottle the runt pig of a large litter; to rub noses with a calf in a field; to whisper something into the wagging ear of a burro from Texas-imported for his express companionship; to feed countless chickens and ducks; and to ignore only men . . ." Summing up his American experience, Stephens said: "If anyone gets fresh with you in America, particularly taxi drivers, you must say-holding up two fingers...
...Duke (no first name given) who is always cold and has one log longer than the other "because when he was young, he had spent his mornings place-kicking pups and punting kittons." The delightful bumbling Royal rotinue is now a shadowy band of spies called Whisper, and Hark, and Liston...