Word: louder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...window hecklers were tough and loud. For miles Wendell Willkie, his smile set, drove past surly, scowling, derisive faces. Men in their working clothes leaning out of factory windows booed louder & louder. Snaggle-toothed old women stood with feet planted wide, arms out, thumbs down in the ancient gesture. Viragoes spat and jeered. Men with smut and grease on their dungarees shook their fists, bellowed epithets. On through the dingy streets rolled the shiny, new 1941-model cars, past Toledo Machine & Tool Co., the Willys-Overland plant. Outside the heavy-meshed "strike fences" stood mocking, spindle-legged children, hard-muscled...
...Louder and Sunnier. With weather and the U. S. lending more & more aid, British confidence grew loud. Last week Nazi night raids on London eased up in the face of bad weather, and early this week, with a sou'wester howling on the Channel, Londoners experienced their first all-clear night...
...Dietz speaks louder than words," said his dour friend, You Foo Too, "and your words have a Harlow sound I predict the Jeffs will be the Pfister draw Blood...
...Christian, Toyohiko Kagawa, was released from the prison to which he was hustled last month. Christian Kagawa said he would spend the rest of his life tending tuberculous Japanese on pine-studded, golden-beached Toyoshima, one of the "dream islands" of Japan's Inland Sea. Louder than his words was the obvious inference that, at the behest of Japan's New Order in East Asia, he had abandoned militant Christianity for politically innocuous social service...
Methodist Bishop Yoshimune Abe let his words speak louder than silence. Bishop Abe, reported Harold Edward Fey in last week's Christian Century, regularly worships at the great imperial shrine of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami at Ise, the Mecca of Shintoism, declares that "every Japanese should go ... for it is a holy place." When Bishop Abe was raised to the episcopate last October, wrote Mr. Fey, "almost his first act was to visit a pagan shrine for worship...