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...that he would henceforth enforce all regulations making it illegal to persuade children to stay out of school. U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell said that the Justice Department was also watching the fomenters of strikes and riots. For the moment, at least, such words spoke a good deal louder than the troublemakers' harangues...
...Actions speak louder than words ... Some of the principal [deterrents] are threats or a history of confiscation or discrimination [and] exchange restrictions . . . Sound, large-scale private investments abroad can only result from assurance of the security and the right of ready repatriation of principal and an opportunity for greater profit than at home Where [as in the U.S.] there are possibilities open, [U.S. investors] will need some additional inducement to undertake the extra risks of going to foreign lands...
Then came an even louder thunderclap. Petrov had been provided with some "very confidential" information in a paper called Document J, prepared in part with information provided by Herbert Evatt's two private secretaries. The Royal Commission hastily pointed out that "we do not find anything in this document that reflects on the leader of the opposition." But that did not soothe aroused Herbert Evatt...
...creatures, e.g., sand dollars and mud-living worms, and studied the growth of marine vegetation. They pursued and captured in glass jars the bubbles of natural gas that rise from the bottom of the Gulf. While they swam in the silent depth, they heard clams clicking their shells. Louder sounds were the bangs of dynamite charges set off by oil prospectors a dozen miles away...
...times the couple seemed to have been jolted by a high-voltage wire, hips writhing, arms swinging. Exhausted, Adele turned to light a cigarette, but the music shrieked louder, her partner yelled Come on!," and she stepped back into the beat as if she had never stopped...