Word: decibel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make a great picture. The settings, in the British countryside, were lovely-wide swards and sleepy old castles and glens full of light. Best of all, Disney was careful to choose his principals-Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, Joan Rice, Bobby Driscoll-not for their box-office rating or sexual decibel, but rather as friends are chosen, for their good human faces and pleasant ways. As a result, each of the pictures was just what a children's classic is supposed to be: a breath of healthy air blown in from the warm meadows of faraway and long...
...Jericho, there had hardly been such sound. Motorists stopped. People in town heard about it and jumped in their cars to go out and see what was going on. Finally, the portly figure of Wake County Deputy Sheriff Carl Benton appeared. When he managed to make himself heard, the decibel count fell to normal...
...many-decibel shrieking is hard on humans too, but it need not last for long. Starlings driven from their roosts do not return when the noise stops; they stay away from the haunted roosts for the rest of the season...
...Decibel Test. Listening to the loudest comment, observers might conclude that EDC hasn't a prayer. But the decibel level is not a fair test. Those who are for EDC are for it in a quiet resigned way: in a land so recently occupied, people do not cheer for German rearmament, but only acknowledge its necessity. A hunt for alternatives is on among those EDC opponents who accept a controlled German rearmament if only it could be achieved without any controls on France. Some might vote for EDC if the supranational clauses would not immediately be put into effect...
...trouble lies in the lack of any licensing system for sound trucks. While the Cambridge police are strict about parades they do not consider a 120 decibel juggernaut particularly worthy of supervision. Rather, they deem their verbal permission sufficient control of the trucks, adding only the afterthought that it would be nice to stay away from hospitals, schools and court-rooms...