Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bundie's eyes narrowed as he entered the gloom of Mem Hall. In front of him he saw a round form hurtling out of the other side of the building. "There he is!" Bundie said half-aloud. But his thoughts ground to a halt as his body shot out of the building...
...While his colleagues squirmed with shame and embarrassment, Dickinson blandly allowed as how "I am not going to vouch for the authenticity or the veracity of any affidavit or any individual whose affidavit I hold"-and then proceeded to lend them authenticity by reading some of the "eyewitness" reports aloud...
...divider between the two booths he noted that the young man wore thick glasses. Bundie reached into his coat pocket, but stopped short as he felt his hand fall upon a small package. Slowly he drew it out and eyed it carefully. "It's not mine," he stated half-aloud. "In fact I've never seen it before...
...read a story, George and the Cherry Tree. Some of the others stray from their individual assignments to follow the story. Next comes a second-grade language class for Keith Myren, 8, and Becky Koepsell, 7, interrupted by questions from the still-reading first-graders. Then second-graders read aloud, while Mrs. Lundberg checks desk-to-desk on the work of others. An eight-minute science lesson for the fourth and fifth grades centers on such questions as "Why is water often muddy?" Mrs. Lundberg deftly fields second-grade arithmetic questions while teaching eighth-grade biology, stops to help...
...press hosannas over President Johnson's eloquent voting-rights speech to Congress, Commonweal's Washington Correspondent William Shannon weighed in with a sharp and sober warning: "President Johnson is running what may be termed the rhetoric risk. He likes to promise everybody something and to dream aloud, admittedly more often in the language of the Snopes family than of Aristotle, about the wonderful future that is acoming. As a Texan and an heir to that state's neoPopulist traditions, he is a natural master of the America-is-agreat-big-wonderful-barbecue school of politics...