Word: howle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHRB's weekly request show, "Barn Howl," will feature live performances by New England and Greater Boston hillbilly stars Sunday, April 20. The program will be designed to appeal to devotees of Western and Hillbilly music...
...news brought a howl of indignation from the rest of the Senate. Minor treaties are frequently waved through without bothering to call for a quorum or recording the vote, but never had such an important treaty slipped by with so little notice. Hastily, the Senate asked the President to return the treaty "for reconsideration." This time, the quorum bells would be sounded, the roll formally called, and the approval of Greece and Turkey in NATO recorded with proper ceremony...
Although there are still troubles to be ironed out (e.g., too much amplification feeds sound from loudspeakers back to microphone, causing a loud, cacophonous howl), churchmen were favorably impressed. Now congregations should be able to listen to historic chants, sermons will sound as if they actually come from the pulpit, not from the older loudspeakers that were spotted under seats and in other improbable locations. The engineers, said Archdeacon Gibbs-Smith, have been clever enough to preserve "the sense of the numinous [consciousness of the Holy] which is so vital in divine worship...
...then find a new partner. The audience began to titter when the basketball player in the group made his sixth appearance with still another "very best girl." Not even the anonymity of grey flannels could mask his six foot five inches, and the audience's titter changed to a howl when it realized the sort of fast shuffle that was going...
...once a few others had been tapped for this policy-stating group, the excluded members could have a right to howl that their chastity had been impugned. As it is, the ones who have protested are doing a beautiful job of self-incrimination. It takes a shady mind to find a double meaning...