Word: howlings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern times have brought forth the maddened howl of the U.S. legislator as dramatically as has Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Congressmen, almost to a man, regard the Secretary as a cat, and feel an unholy urge to chase him up a tree. Some of the congressional baying he has aroused is rooted deep in partisan politics. But the Secretary's unblinking disregard for opinion on Capitol Hill, and his back-arching criticism of his tormentors, has at times driven even Democrats to tooth-clicking leaps...
...through the curse of General, commands in the mad wisdom of the judgment speech, "When I do stare, see how the subject quakes." He is calamitous, never pathetic, when he asks, "Is man no more than this?" or when, with dead Cornelia in his arms, he orders the court, "Howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!" Devlin's performance is virtuosi, raging through extremity of nature, enormity...
...Young, in his confusion, bit into a banana belonging to Kearns, then desperately tried to make amends by patching it messily with another banana. In the radio and TV gagwriters' vocabulary describing audience reactions to gags, a laugh is the lowest thing on the scale. Then comes the howl. After that they yell, and finally, on rare occasions, they scream. During Young's banana routine, there was no doubt that the studio audience screamed...
...university lift its ban on Negro students? Two days before the poll, the university's five-judge student court called the whole thing off. With last-minute effect, anti-referendum forces had argued that i) a vote to keep the ban would give the Russians another chance to howl at the U.S., 2 ) a vote to lift the ban would bring a lot of howling Texans down on the university's neck...