Word: chime
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...accounts because young people "don't know anything about investing" the handful of people under 40 weren't eager to speak. In Pearson, Georgia at a senior citizens center, Kingston kept trying to get a man who said he was 29, the lone young person in the room, to chime and say he could live with raising the retirement age from 67 to 70, but he wouldn't. After the event, the man admitted he was a member of the local Democratic party and had helped fill the center with people opposed to private accounts...
...weeks, generic gimmicks and average advertisements have been undermining the unique charm of Harvard Square. The younger siblings of the bells that wake Yard-dwellers every morning at quarter-to-nine now chime constantly on street-corners and, consequently, in nightmares of every description. Indeed, any attempt to clear one’s head and get some fresh air is foiled by the unchecked proliferation of tinsel. The best part: these little pre-fabricated, plasticized pieces of pure pleasure won’t go away for weeks. When it comes to commercial Christmas decorations, the silver lining isn?...
...This Princeton University Professor of Religion is a preacher, and his congregation today realizes that. They chime in to his words with the occasional “that’s right!” or “tell ‘em!” that you would expect more of a Sunday afternoon homily than a Saturday night book discussion sponsored by the Harvard Book Store...
...empowered as consumers." Pete Blackshaw, a founder of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association, predicts that viral ads will increasingly harness technology like camera phones. Since "moblogs," or group photo blogs, get tens of thousands of camera-phone images a day, viral marketers are gearing up to let customers chime in visually as well as verbally about their love for a brand of blue jeans or soft drink...
...floaty ballad in which the film's ethereal Heidi imagines seeing a vision of her lover in snow clouds above the Australian Alps. As they do for the rest of the movie, Decoder Ring provide a soundscape of dark valleys and sunny alpine flourishes, from the deep chime of the glockenspiel to high-pealing piano and xylophone. But how exactly do Lenka's lyrics go? "In my heart," begins Schutzinger hesitantly. "The snow falls down onto my skin," adds Kelly before trailing off. "Like snow flakes," offers Schutzinger. "And your breath? agghrr...