Word: blares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Loudspeakers on workers' clubhouses, restaurants and roofs of buildings blare out the news of important victories. These broadcasts have now been built into productions complete with salvos of cannon fire and background music...
...Record. It was the coldest night of the fall season. A mean wind chilled an audience that failed by 200 to fill the opera house (capacity: 3,500) of St. Louis' Municipal Auditorium. The loudspeakers set up to blare the speech to an expected overflow crowd in the square outside were not needed. Willkie's delivery, awkward in 1940, turned out to be only slightly improved. And he had to race through his speech to squeeze it into a 30-minute national hookup, holding up his hand to silence applause. He still had nine paragraphs to go when...
Mourning. At home, German citizens tore the newspapers from the vendors' hands. In the black type they read the unbelievable story: "Fighting at Stalingrad has ceased." With bowed heads they heard it read over the radio, not to the blare of the Nazi Horst Wessel march, but to the strains of the tragic old German folk song: Ich Hatt' Einen Kameraden (I Had A Comrade). They did not know that some 115,000 officers and men had laid down their arms. But they knew that Stalingrad had been lost, and that it was one of the worst defeats...
...Connor and St. Clair Mclnerney elected to shoot it out; they were mowed down by a crossfire from FBI shotguns. At the other apartment their pals woke up at 5 o'clock in the morning to find the street brilliant with searchlights, to hear a loudspeaker blare: "Basil Banghart, Roger Touhy, Edward Darlak. We know that you are in there. . . . Come out with your hands up. One at a time...
...sense of tragedy from their hopelessly internecine differences. As Sadhu Singh Dhami, a distinguished Sikh scholar, said last week: "The cow is sacred to the Hindus and pork repulsive to Moslems. . . . The Hindus are rather noisy in their ritual and greet an interesting variety of mute gods with a blare of conch shells and din of gongs, while the Moslems' worship of Allah is austere and silent and includes a bit of healthy physical exercise. The Moslem is circumcised, while the Hindu is not; the Moslem clips his mustache in a certain way, while the Hindu does...