Word: whisperingly
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...longtime Democratic National Committeeman Herbert S. ("Hub") Walters, a millionaire roadbuilder, banker and natural-gas distributor. Walters is 71, and has twice undergone surgery for malignant tumors, including a 1948 throat operation that cost him his vocal cords. As a result, he cannot speak above a hoarse whisper. There is every likelihood that Walters will step down next year to permit Clement himself to run for the remaining two years of Kefauver's term...
...then. On one occasion, the story went, the two appeared at a top Manhattan restaurant only to be told by the headwaiter that no tables were available. When Henry insisted on being seated, the maitre d'hótel was forced to whisper that Daughter Charlotte was dining inside...
...raging Duvalier sent back word: "Barbot, you will bring me your head." But in voodoo-entranced Haiti the whisper went around that no one could kill Barbot. He had the strange power, they said, to change himself into a black dog and escape at will. In Port-au-Prince, Duvalier's policemen went around shooting black dogs on sight...
...destalinization drive against Peking's attacks, he demanded: "What do they want? To frighten our people, to bring back the days when a man went to his job and did not know whether he would see his wife and children again?" Dropping his voice to a dramatic whisper, Khrushchev said that letters to him from all over the country expressed gratitude for ending the Stalinist terror. Then he added: "If Stalin had died ten years earlier, it would have been even better...
...world commodities can excite international passions the way sugar does. Just a whisper that there would be a shortage (caused by a poor European crop and a drastic fall off in Cuban output) was enough to send sugar prices off on a speculative binge that in recent weeks shot the U.S. raw sugar price up to $13.20 per hundred pounds v. $6.60 in January. As everyone knew it had to, the bubble broke-and last week sugar prices came tumbling down to $10.50 by week's end, with no sign of slowing...