Word: louder
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...interminable glow had turned tens of thousands of New Yorkers into night-crawling scamps instead of the select fraternity that stayed out late carousing when Skaggs had first arrived. And Skaggs did wonder if the city's gas-fired wakefulness had begun to overstimulate its inhabitants, make them merrier, louder, funnier, stranger, greedier, crazed...
...received a shock yesterday after a sprinkler pipe burst, flooding I entryway and forcing students out of their dorms for several hours. At around 3 p.m., Ajay G. Kumar ’08 was working in his second-floor dorm room when he heard a noise that became increasingly louder. “I looked out the window and saw a disgusting brown waterfall pouring down the side...of Cabot,” Kumar said. “I ran to get help from the senior tutor [Stephen H. Kargere], but by the time I got back to my room...
...dorms, four square inches of concern for student health became a hot topic on campus. Those in support of the measure applauded the UC for taking steps to encourage safe sex among freshmen. Among the set of those opposed, however, several surprising characteristics emerged. Their conservative voices were considerably louder than expected at ostensibly left-wing Harvard, and women were a substantial component of the vocal opposition. They accused the availability of free condoms as objectifying women; by tacitly making sex no big deal, the argument was, women suffered. The viewpoint is nothing new; a rightist minority had been gaining...
...York City after the Pride parade. So I'm not sure why she thought it would be funny to target a gay joke at Edwards. But then again she doesn't need her semiannual cadenzas of outrage to be funny: she just needs us to condemn them, louder and louder every time...
Perhaps it is no surprise that the French would long for Piaf's groundedness at a time when their country feels its own ground shifting. Her humble authenticity amounts to a kind of safe haven from the obliterating force of a louder and crasser world culture. No wonder anxious French citizens are flocking into the outstretched arms of Paris' favorite daughter...