Word: whispering
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Debate was cut short as a prominent Peronista hurried to a cloakroom telephone, returned to whisper in the presiding officer's ear. The roll call began, and the deputies voted-by turning the electrical indicators on their desks to "Aye" or "No." The lights on the board above the dais flashed the result: 104 to 42 in favor of expulsion. "Let's see who runs to telephone la Señora!" hooted Radical Deputy Emir Mercader...
...Secretary of State for External Affairs, nervously fingered his bristly mustache. He was Mr. King's man and the convention's almost certain choice. In a nearby box sat chic, grey-haired Madame St. Laurent. As the ballots were counted, eager supporters kept rushing up to whisper to her: "Très, Très, Très bon." Each time she answered: "Attendez." They did not have to wait long for the formal announcement: St. Laurent on the first ballot with 848 votes...
Ghosts Know. The speed of sound! That magic and frightening quantity dominates the dreams of high-speed plane designers. It is no mere landmark, no mere handy figure for public relations officers. It is basic: the speed with which a "compression wave" (whether a faint whisper or the crushing shock wave of an atomic explosion) moves through air. The actual speed varies considerably with the air's temperature (the colder the slower). To eliminate this variability from their figuring, scientists have given the speed of sound a special name. In aerodynamics, the speed of sound in any air under...
...Brien is skillful, experienced, and excusably languid. The picture's attractiveness, such as it is, comes from good sets nicely photographed, and from its deeply old-fashioned story and general treatment. But that, in turn, becomes pretty hard to bear; you fully expect a ragamuffin, religiously moved, to whisper Hully Chee...
...Democratic Leader Franz Neumann, noted that it was Bastille Day. The British translator, picking up Neumann's words, sentence by sentence, intoned: "And on this great French holiday in Berlin we honor the ideals of Fraternity, Equality and . . ."The audience roared as the harassed translator appealed in a whisper to Neumann for the third word. Neumann gave fire to the worn phrase by shouting in German: "We here in Berlin know what it is! Liberty...