Word: blares
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sticky assault of an 85° heat wave. Couples lounged inertly in the lilac-scented shade of the parks along Boulevard Magheru, sipped raspberry soda out of communal glasses, or took in the desultory lake breeze at the Pescarus Restaurant. Then, with an electric crackle, loudspeakers began to blare, and a tingle ran through the crowd...
...little before 11 p.m., however, the blinking picked up again and was soon punctuated by the raucous blare of the Weld fire alarm which someone had triggered. All of Weld, more than a 100 students, emptied into Weld's open entrance where they were contained by proctors and a small battery of police...
...enter Britko's fantasies as he pictures a dream world of dazzling sunshine (shot by superimposing the characters on an overexposed setting) where he and old Mrs. Lautmann can stroll elegantly along the shadows and sunrays, listening to the town band. But the blare of the Nazi band returns him to reality. The audience undergoes a similar fantasy sequence at the end of the film, which is broken finally by the lights of the movie theater as the film ends...
...that many of the poor are "rigid, suspicious, have a fatalistic outlook. They do not plan ahead. They are prone to depression, futility, lack of friendliness and trust in others." In the burned-out mining towns of Appalachia, ninth-generation Anglo-Saxon American men cluster around TV sets that blare from the grim, grimy tar-paper shacks. "They're not much interested in what's on the screen," says John D. Rockefeller IV, a 28-year-old poverty worker in West Virginia, "but it gives them something to watch and pass the long hours...
...short, sharp encounters: the bark of a close rifle, the sudden cough of automatic weapons, the crump of a single mortar, occasionally a scream as a knife finds its way through a rib cage. An "incident" may be anything from the skirmish of a dozen men to the blare of a propaganda bullhorn; whatever their nature, incidents are on the increase along the Gia Dinh perimeter. From February to April they averaged 37 a month. Through July the rate rose to 55 a month. Last month the total was 95, including four VC assaults in force, and 17 attacks with...