Word: louder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miami and New Orleans, horse-clippers were busy snipping winter coats from thoroughbreds, which were arriving by the trainload. Publicity men in loud jackets and louder shirts were booming next week's opening of the winter racing season. Cagey Hirsch Jacobs, who has trained the most winners for eleven of the past 13 years, prepared to head south-too late to do his 1946 record any good. He had won a mere 97 races this year...
...world of closely allied economic interests, the moves of the United States, its wealthiest power, are mirrored in the financial affairs of all nations. A depression here would be an international calamity, for the proposals of the country's new leaders' portend actions that will speak louder and harsher than the sweetly-phrased statements of American delegates at the United Nations. The extreme movement right in a world going left widens the breach between political ideologies and dogma, but the economic necessities of one world will always remain...
there was a louder -noise and I fell...
...practice from 9 to 5. When she could afford them, Helen began stuffing herself with potatoes and fattening desserts, gained 25 Ibs. in one year. As her chest and stomach got rounder and fuller, so did her voice. "I gave up any idea of being svelte." She laughs louder than anyone at jokes about her massiveness. Now she weighs...
Others spoke. From capitals around the world dispatches poured into Washington. Acting Secretary of State Will Clayton had rushed to the White House four times in three days. Byrnes knew all this. Still he said nothing. Louder than a million words, the overwhelming silence from Jimmy Byrnes echoed across the Atlantic...