Word: blares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the open window's the B-52s and their tender ballad. "Rock Lobster, blare. That isn't all: people are playing catch with beer kegs, tossing them out the third floor window to friends waiting on the ground. And that isn't all; inside the Winthrop House suite they are playing football, tackle football, and there is a large bole developing in one wall. When the House Master orders them to stop, they offer him a beer: when the senior tutor calls the police, someone hears the sirens, gets the idea there is a fire, and empties every extinguisher...
...election by a landslide and was welcomed to office last week with a blare of trumpets and the bells of rejoicing at the freeing of the American hostages. But Ronald Reagan's honeymoon is likely to be somber. He inherits a nation that is bleakly pessimistic about its own situation, anxious about inflation, skeptical about solving any of its major problems quickly and much less confident than it was four years ago when Jimmy Carter took office...
There may be protests about the nomadic existence of the candidates. But there is plainly something heady about swooping down through mountains or over prairies and hearing the blare of bands in tribute to the caravan. Anybody who has heard the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing The Battle Hymn of the Republic for a rally has felt the stir. Reagan even seems to enjoy the campaign food. Unlike other candidates who only nibble, Reagan plows right...
...ritual as regular as the seasons. On one day every spring and autumn, railway stations across the Soviet Union are festooned with patriotic banners, bands blare stirring martial rhythms, and local dignitaries make speeches praising soldierly virtues. Then, as crowds of tearful friends and relatives wave farewell, anxious young men climb aboard the waiting train: they are the current crop of 18-year-old Soviet draftees?about 1 million a year?heading off to begin their military service. After basic training and indoctrination at the camps, invariably hundreds of miles from their birthplaces, they will take a solemn oath...
That slogan will start bombarding Americans this week from sea to shining sea as the great decennial head count begins. Ministers, priests and rabbis will be preaching it from their pulpits on "Census Sabbath" and "Census Sunday." Put to music, the slogan will blare from radios in Spanish, Cantonese, Russian, Greek, Vietnamese and 26 other languages in addition to English. On TV, the census will be plugged by Kirk Douglas, José Ferrer, Elvin Hayes, Roger Staubach, Mickey Mouse and a cast of thousands. Just in case someone might manage to remain blissfully ignorant of the effort to get every...