Word: louder
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Help me!" the children in a second-floor classroom heard the feeble, desperate cry from downstairs in an elementary school in Ikeda, a suburb of Osaka in western Japan. Then the screams grew louder. On the first floor, second-graders were just finishing music class when a large man in cream-colored trousers madly dashed toward them, muttering incoherently as he attacked pupils with a lethal 15-cm-bladed kitchen knife. He stabbed three boys standing by a chalkboard. When a girl tried to escape, he chased her down a corridor. "Run! Run!" a second child yelled. A teacher threw...
...hear tomorrow that the Bush administration is happy with the positive response from the region to the Mitchell Report. But you'll also hear about the continuation of the violence. Diplomatic efforts don't mean much on the ground. There, the shells and bombs and rockets and gunfire speaks louder...
That sentiment reverberated around Israel last week as the latest outrage in the seven-month Aqsa intifadeh touched nerves already dangerously raw. The brutality of the murders raised ever louder demands that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon strike harder at the Palestinians. Israeli newspapers expressed shock that surpassed their anger seven weeks ago when a Palestinian sniper killed Shalhevet Pass, a 10-month-old in the Israeli settlement in Hebron. It somehow seemed worse that this time the victims were not Hebron extremists, but peaceable people of Tekoa in Gush Etzion...
Even Mientkiewiczes and Pierzynskis can win when the opposition scores merely three runs a game. The analysts are already screaming louder than a PSLM rally at noontime...
...built in," says Tim Zagat, publisher of the dining guides. "It's part of the shtick." Reed Goldstein, manager of an Angelo & Maxie's steak house, is quite happy that his restaurant is known as one of New York's noisiest. "As the night goes on, it gets louder," he says. "We turn up the music. We don't get a lot of complaints. It's a happy feeling." For those who missed that last part, Goldstein said, IT'S A HAPPY FEELING...