Word: blares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blare Raid. In Chicago, sleepless David Walanka reported a blaring horn to police, who found a short-circuited horn in the parked car of David Walanka...
Archibald Percival Wavell was born (1883) near his father's barracks in Essex. He was cradled to the blare of bugles, lulled by the thud of marching feet. At the age of six, he first saw India (on the same trip he also took his first look at Egypt). A boy of few words, he noted briefly in his diary: "Went ashore at Port Said." He received a stern classical schooling at Winchester (the twelfth of his line to go there), proceeded comfortably through Sandhurst, then, like his father before him, joined the Black Watch Regiment, in which...
Cymbals & Silence. When Bierut and his Warsaw colleagues (Osubka-Morawski, Kowalski and Gomulka) arrived at Moscow's airport, they were greeted by Foreign Commissar Molotov, Vice Commissar Vyshinsky, Politburo brass hats and a vast blare of tubas, trumpets, cymbals and drums...
Outside Philadelphia, Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. opened its spick-&-span $26,000,000 plant with a blare of publicity. A month later the Navy canceled its contract with Budd...
Black-haired, brown-eyed Sid Luckman played his first football in the blare of automobile horns on the hard pavement of Lott Street, Brooklyn. After graduating from Columbia, he signed up with the Bears four years ago. But this week, at 26, he announced that his career was close to its end: he has signed on as an ensign in the U.S. Maritime Service, expects his call any minute...