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grumbled

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Grumbled George Slaughter, Cher's current producer: "I'm producing a variety show, but I'm living a soap opera."

From Time Magazine Archive

Grumbled the Chicago Tribune: "Less an exercise in statesmanship than in public relations."

From Time Magazine Archive

Grumbled one critic: "Never before have Australians been asked to contemplate such vast ambiguities in their country and their souls."

From Time Magazine Archive

Grumbled City Editor John McMullan of the Miami Herald: "It's insane to go all this distance for a beer."

From Time Magazine Archive

Loud were their clamouring tongues, as when The clanging sea-fowl leave the fen, And, with their cries discordant mixed, Grumbled and yelled the pipes betwixt.

From Marmion by Morley, Henry