Word: bullhorned
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London police decided to handle the embassy seizure with as much patience as possible, but they were hard put to control the clamorous crowds that assembled and turned the scene into a bizarre street happening. Pro-regime Iranian students, led by a zealot with a bullhorn, chanted, "Long live Khomeini" and "Death to Carter." Separated from that group, by the efforts of police, were the anti-Khomeini Iranians and the fed-up Londoners, who shouted, "Go home, go home!" A lively group beating drums danced for peace, and a group of Britons sang Rule Britannia. Lamenting the fact that...
...heat heat from fiery red ingots rose in shimmering waves, and smoke drifted through the air, as Senator Edward Kennedy stood on a platform in the middle of the Universal-Cyclops Specialty Steel mill outside Pittsburgh. Shouting through a bullhorn above the clangor of the plant, he told a crowd of 200 workers that President Carter's proposed budget cuts would reduce safety inspections of steel mills. Roared Kennedy: "I'm not going to let them take that protection away from the steelworkers. He [Carter] ought to come out of that Rose Garden and talk with some of those steelworkers...
...celebrities were among the 100 participants in last week's much touted "March for Survival," organized by the International Rescue Committee and Doctors Across Frontiers, a French aid organization. When this earnest band reached the Cambodia-Thailand frontier they shouted an appeal through a red bullhorn, asking that they be allowed to cross the bridge to Cambodia with 20 truckloads of food and medicine. Rebuffed, the marchers donated the relief supplies to Cambodian refugees in Thai camps...
...villagers of Rae Bareli in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the vigorous woman in the beige sari electioneering under a roadside arbor was a haunting apparition from India's political past. Raising an orange-colored bullhorn, she repeated her blunt and simple slogan: "Banish poverty!" Seizing upon the issue of most urgent concern to her peasant audience-the high price of onions -she promised not only to fight inflation but to bring the bounty of the welfare state closer to home. "I don't know whether you've had any government aid here," she shouted grandly...
...been a great year for the Red Sox." This guy is walking around and around Fenway Park with a battery-powered bullhorn and three Red Sox banners. "You can't come up with winners all the time...It's been a great year for the Red Sox...It's been a great year for the Red Sox..." And it's been a great year for Anastasio Somoza...