Word: whispering
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They passed silently, by ones and twos. The crowds began to break up just before a whisper ran down Beacon Street. "Clarence, it's Clarence. Is it Clarence?" Clarence DcMar was coming. The crowd held together for just a few more minutes while the old man puffed by, tired, but smiling. For DcMar the applause was possessive. He turned into the pre-dusk cocktails-and-dinner hour of Commonwealth Avenue, and disappeared between two taxicabs. Behind him, Fred Murphy, a very young man from Dorchester, dragged himself up the next to last hill of the race, the trestle just west...
...Remember when we were rationing jobs, not butter?" asked Bevan. "There's no need for that now . . . We're putting the pawnshops out of business." Then Bevan asked in a loud stage whisper: "By the way, is that pawnshop still there...
...United States; it only promises the negative result of averting, for a few months or years, well-nigh certain catastrophe . . . We are plunged into a truly terrible arms race." His proposal: 1) broadcast the story of U.S. motives and ideals behind the Iron Curtain by boosting the "Whisper of America" to a real, full-throated Voice of America; 2) offer $10 billion a year-which is two-thirds of the U.S. arms budget-for five years, to develop the technical skills and peacetime atomic-energy possibilities of all nations, including Russia. In return, other nations, including Russia, would have...
Nothing came of it, but still the story was not laid to rest. In 1946 Hiss was elected the $20,000-a-year president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a job held previously by only two men, Elihu Root and Nicholas Murray Butler. The persistent whisper of Hiss's possible Communist affiliations prompted Carnegie Chairman John Foster Dulles to discuss the matter with him. But Hiss satisfied Dulles that there was nothing to it, and assumed office. A few months later, FBI agents called on Hiss. They asked him if he had ever heard of Whittaker Chambers...
Haunted House. The most outspoken of the malcontents was Ed Stanky, who made no secret of what he thought about Southworth's managing. Stanky's roommate, Alvin Dark, said "Me, too." By August, Southworth was like a man in a haunted house, shying at every whisper, He was sent home on the verge of a breakdown. The crowning insult came when his players voted him only half a share of their series money (for finishing fourth...