Word: bullhorns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young tenant activist leads 20 followers onto the stage before astonished University administrators can stop her. When the sound system is turned off, she grabs a bullhorn to broadcast her demand that Harvard build low-income housing...
Minutes after the shooting started, police arrived outside the post office. For 45 minutes they tried to communicate with the gunman by telephone and bullhorn. There was no response. When an Edmond SWAT team finally stormed the building at 8:30 a.m., they found Sherrill's body amid the carnage. After killing 14 people and wounding six, he had pumped a bullet into his own head...
...women had grown into a force of some 400 people. About 120 of them wore kerchiefs; the rest, men, women and children, marched in solidarity. The walked a slow, symbolic circle around a small obelisk dedicated to Argentine independence from Spain, and at the end they gathered around a bullhorn through which one member delivered an impassioned speech about the government's recent decision to take pending human rights complaints out of the hands of military tribunals and give them over to the civilian courts...
...question "Did it have to happen?" Invoking inevitability as an explanation begs the question of why Move didn't just surrender in the first place. The report concludes that the city bungled negotiations with the group. The only way Move could talk to the city was through a bullhorn. The only way the city could talk to Move is epitomized in the final words of the city's ambassadors to the besieged people--"Come on, cut the shit...
Last year, Harvard defended its national title at Princeton, overcoming a large, vocal, and bullhorn-equipped Princeton crowd in the process...