Word: blaringly
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...identity common to military life. Routed from bed at dawn, the peasants lined up for roll call and marched off under red banners to the mist-hung fields. At the sound of the kanpu's whistle, they raced to their tasks of plowing, weeding or reaping. At the blare of a bugle, they dropped their tools and seized rifles (unloaded) for close-order drill. At the sound of whistles again, they fell to a new set of tasks, hurrying to simple workshops to make canvas shoes, coarse paper or cotton cloth, and to primitive blast furnaces to make...
With a flutter of press releases and a blare of bands, Detroit last week began its annual rites of summer: press previews of next year's car models. Everyone had to swear not to take pictures of what he saw, since the first public displays are at least three weeks away. Current state of the automotive arts as represented by the 1962s...
...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...