Word: blares
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visiting Frenchwoman felt a light tap on her arm. "Lady," said a frowzy, spiritless panhandler, "c'n ya lemmee have a quarter to buy my little boy some milk?" As the woman reached into her purse, the city's street sounds suddenly receded, and she heard the blare of a rock-'n'-roll tune. She glanced around, at length found the source of the music: the panhandler was carrying a small transistor radio. The Frenchwoman snapped shut her purse and marched...
...fair, the juggernaut blocks traffic for two hours as it passes. Founded by a promotion-minded sporting sheet with the inappropriate name of L'Auto, the Tour is financed by advertisers, who pay up to $4,000 for the privilege of following the racers with sound trucks that blare praise for products from apéritifs to aspirin. (The Tour's current sponsors are two French papers...
...blare of bugles and the whine of bagpipes cut through the chilly Washington night as crack armed forces drill teams wheeled and countermarched on the floodlit White House lawn. From a bal cony watched President John F. Kennedy, and at his side was a welcome guest: Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, 57, the father of his young country and a staunch friend of the West...
...midst of all this, the President of the U.S. added a little grace note of his own to the continuing blare of the cold war. He ordered a step-up in the U.S.'s potential for fighting guerrilla wars...
...have for the past few months been fitted on top with huge canvas cylinders: to save gasoline they are now run on natural gas. Never since the inauguration of the Communist regime in 1949 has poverty been so widespread as it is this year. Signs posted in eating establishments blare out the message: 'You don't need your "whole" ration. Eat no more than will keep the hunger away.' Mess halls compete for the 'Red Star' which is awarded to the establishment that has managed to serve its patrons even less than did its neighbors...