Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What the hell!" Vag said aloud, getting up from his desk. Then everything was quiet again, and he seemed to hear the hum of the clock repeating "What the hell!" over and over again. His eyes passed over the open book and onto a little yellow card beside it. He sat down again and picked up the card. Its bright color interested his eyes more than the dull white pages of the book. Its bold black letters meant more to him than all the print of the wordy volume that lay before him. "Notice of Classification" it said...
Then Donald Nelson sat back, puffed at a sputtering briar, watched half of Washington rage at his most decisive action in 13 months. The rift spread wider between the nation's armed forces and the one civilian agency which supplies them with arms. The military cried aloud for Nelson's resignation, for appointment of the man who saw the job and did it in World War I-grey old Bernard Mannes Baruch...
...into the springy depths of the clock, and blindly felt his way back to the empty warm nest between the sheets. His heavy head sank into the soft pillow, and lying there, he opened his eyes and stared mistily at the ceiling. "Still going in circles," he muttered half-aloud. "That party last night . . . where on earth is Lechmere? But it was swell . . . gee, she was swell . . . still reeling from that party last night. Oh . . ." And his voice trailed...
...natives. Smith's records are accompanied by booklets so that record-listeners see what they hear. In the field, special service officers hold language lessons for groups of from 10 to 20 men, who hear each set of records a half-dozen times and repeat the alien phrases aloud...
...traditions." The day might even dawn, he thought with sorrow, when a Harvard man might not know who a Yardling was, or what to do when he heard the cry of "Rheinhardt!" echoing through the Yard on a warm spring evening. "I don't suppose," he said, half-aloud, "that this year's Freshmen even know who Join the Orange Man and Bob Lampoon were...