Word: howlings
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Even impersonal names stir improbable emotions. Phone clients have continued to howl as Ma Bell has systematically abolished exchange names (Butterfield, Murray Hill) in favor of numbers. When a disease got named for their organization, some American Legionnaires protested as though fearing voodoo-like contamination. Real estate developers act as if they expect fanciful street names to impart class to entire neighborhoods. But should it be assumed that only classical music is played on Symphony Circle in Vienna...
Frank Collin, 33, is a swaggering bullyboy who likes to dress up in a Nazi uniform, spout totalitarian dogma and howl racial slurs. Aryeh Neier, 41, the son of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, runs the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that protects individual freedoms. For the past 14 months, Neier and the A.C.L.U. have defended the right of Collin and a small band of brownshirts to taunt the citizens of Skokie, Ill., thousands of whom are survivors of Nazi death camps...
...there as often as possible ever since, is haunted by the place. She calls the city insolite, an indefinable French word meaning, well, indefinable. Yet she does manage to catch the essential, elusive Marseille: its smells (mostly fish, wine and paint); its sounds (church bells, ships' sirens, the howl of the mistral); its institutions, terrain, architecture and people...
...problem is that Congress has historically viewed the very idea of budget cutting as rather like repealing Christmas. Special-interest groups instantly howl, and Congress listens. The groups are as large as the 34 million Social Security beneficiaries and as small as the 1,700 beekeepers who this year will draw $2.9 million in federal indemnities because their bees may have been harmed by Government spraying of pesticide...
...unbalance youthful minds. To that end he requires poor Richard Thomas, known herein as Jimmy J., to strip, smear himself with river mud and encourage his pals to join him in a fake primitive rite designed to put them in touch with the departed spirit. A dog's howl seems to him a sign that he has been heard, though a more objective observer might imagine the hound to be the world's first furry movie critic. A little later there is a candlelit attempt to summon Dean via ouija board, which spills over into a raid...