Word: louder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They dashed into the lobby and asked a girl at the desk. She shook her head, looked worried. They ran outside. There the noise was louder, but they could see no searchlights, no shell bursts...
...last week recognized the Free French administrative control of French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons. This spoke louder than the recent recognition of the Free French in New Caledonia. The U.S. was obviously hearing the eloquence of General Charles de Gaulle. In London he sharply reminded the Allies that, while Hitler might not yet have the French Empire and Navy, Vichy's policy in neutralizing them had given Hitler a protective screen in northwest Africa and the Mediterranean. Continuing in a belligerent mood, General de Gaulle said: "Fighting France intends to go forward with her allies on the express...
...Tribune only roared the louder: "The isolationists were not heeded. The attempt to put the blame for Pearl Harbor on them is an attempt to cover up for the men whose dereliction caused that disaster." The News slugged back with a cartoon...
...share to the air of bustling nonsense which has characterized OCD. This week Mayor LaGuardia, by promising to resign as head man of OCD, somewhat cleared the air and quieted the room. But no sooner had he done so than Eleanor Roosevelt set the shouts and murmurs going again louder than ever. The suspicion that the OCDiva regarded OCD as her particular plaything was deepened by the appearance of her newly summoned playmates...
...undersigned" still talks louder than all of Lehman Hall's claims that it is "primarily concerned with supplying adequate food to all students at the lowest prices." University Business Manager Aldrich Durant can explain over and over again that undergraduate opinion was consulted through the Student Council before the present "take it or leave it" plan was put through. The University can insist to its heart's content that Harvard Dining Halls are under "moral obligation" to stick to its word about the $8.50 board rate. But the registered protest of House petitions cannot be explained away...