Word: bawls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meetings, like his neckties, are less noisy than they used to be. Sounding brass and tinkling cymbal have been replaced by straight choir singing, with a simple organ and piano accompaniment. As the audience arrives (babies may be left in special nurseries known to the Graham staff as "bawl rooms"), Choir Leader Cliff Barrows is warming up the singers. Song books are passed around to the crowd; then Barrows invites the audience to sing, swinging a glittering trombone; Bass-Baritone Bev Shea goes into action with a few oldtime-religion songs, and the collection and an invocation by a local...
...Plus-One: On Beatrice, two cut-off legion companies make their last stand. Their bunkers are blasted, their trenches filled with their own dead and wounded, yet some legionnaires still bawl songs in half-a-dozen languages as the Communists close in. "Fire on top of us," the legionnaires radio their artillery. But it is two companies against two regiments. By 0200 the Communists have Beatrice...
Returning to Harrow, the old-tie school he attended 60 years ago, Prime Minister Winston Churchill joined in a nostalgic community sing, glared whenever any of his entourage of Cabinet ministers failed to bawl out the lyrics as heartily as he. His blood running hot, a trace of sweat on his brow, Sir Winston was moved almost to tears at the reunion's climax when the Harrow boys chorused a familiar version of the school song in his honor: "Nor less we praise in darker days/ The leader of our nation,/ And Churchill's name shall win acclaim...
...Communists can still use "great artist Picasso," though none of his 53 paintings in Moscow are allowed to be seen, self-criticism was not asked of him. But it was not expected that he should be angry. Said he, when interviewed by a non-Communist newsman: "You do not bawl out people who send you condolences, and it is customary to thank people who send wreaths, even if the flowers are somewhat faded. I sketched what I felt, since I have never seen Stalin. I put all my efforts into producing a resemblance. Apparently it was not liked. Tant...
...huge assortment of new and ingenious toys are dolls that speak Spanish and French, dolls that say "Mama" when tilted one way and "Papa" when tilted the other, dolls that clap their hands, suck their thumbs, wet their pants ; dolls that sleep, smile or screw up their faces and bawl ("Hedy the Three-Faced Doll"). There are miniature race horses called "Phony Ponies," which are powered by Mexican jumping beans, cows that can be milked, a cowboy costume which, turned inside out. becomes an Indian suit...