Word: howle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nude "the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses. ... It isn't that she is naked and stretched out on a bed-no, it is the attitude of one of her arms and hand. If I ventured to describe that attitude, there would be a fine howl. ... I saw young girls stealing furtive glances at her; I saw young men gaze long and absorbedly at her; I saw aged, infirm men hang upon her charms with a pathetic interest...
...smeared by earthquake last fortnight (TIME, June 10). Against the menace of fire, flood, jackals, looters and cholera, a British division surrounded the town and dug frantically in the ruins. But when a rumor spread that the British planned to dynamite and abandon Quetta, natives set up a mighty howl, pointed out that in other earthquakes men had been dug out alive as long as a week afterward...
...anti-Administration outpourings of Rev. Charles Coughlin and Senator Long, Hugh Johnson cried: "You can laugh at Father Coughlin-you can snort at Huey Long-but this country was never under a greater menace. ... It is somebody time for somebody to get up on his hind legs and howl !" Up on his hind legs was precisely where General Johnson got and howl he did at the radio pastor of Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower: "While I do not for a moment compare Father Coughlin with Talleyrand, it is no exaggeration to say that, through the doorway...
That was Huey Long's cue to howl that the Administration had now decided to "turn on the heat from all sides" against him. From National Broadcasting Co. he asked for 45 minutes instead of a half-hour radio time on a coast-to-coast hookup. "I'll cover Johnson's case from Hell to breakfast!" cried he. "There will be 25,000,000 people listening to me tonight. Give me 15 more minutes and I'll have the whole world listening...
...election rules which Mr. Weir rejected. Thereupon in December 1933 he held an election of his own which resulted in a thumping victory for Weirton Steel's company union. Disgruntled leaders of Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, an American Federation of Labor affiliate, let out a mighty howl that they had been tricked and cheated at the plant polls, that Mr. Weir's union was owned hand & foot by the company, that the steelmaster was a ruthless violator of Section 7a. Mr. Weir's attorneys replied that their client did not control the company union, that...