Word: louders
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...afternoon wore on, the crowd outside the Capitol grew larger and louder. Demonstrators carried placards demanding the return of God to America's classrooms. Television evangelists addressed the crowd through megaphones as journalists jostled for position. Inside the Senate chamber, Majority Leader Howard Baker announced: "The hour is at hand to stop talking and start voting." All 100 members came to the floor during the 52 minutes of roll calls as Vice President George Bush ceremoniously acted as presiding officer. But the final tally left many prayers unanswered. The vote last week on a proposed constitutional amendment to permit...
...crowd of 50,000 cheered wildly as Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega read off a guest list extending from Afghanistan to Zambia. They cheered louder still when Ortega proposed lowering the voting age from 18 to 16, a move less democratic than canny, since the Sandinistas' main support derives from the young. When the cheering abated, however, some serious questions remained...
...spent more than 40 years laboring patiently in the party apparatus. For 34 of those years, he was associated with Leonid Brezhnev, acting as a friend, confidant and aide-de-camp. It was Chernenko who turned up Brezhnev's hearing aid and, on occasion, ordered the translators to speak louder so the old man could hear. The best of good soldiers, he was Brezhnev's choice for the succession. But when Andropov was chosen, everybody assumed that Chernenko's career was finished. Instead, Chernenko apparently transferred his loyalty to his former opponent...
...next 63 minutes, that center of serenity became an axis of insanity. Trash, newspapers, tennis balls, and sleeves blanketed the ice, drawing two Big Red delay of game penalties, the mob thundered louder than a heavy metal band, and Cornell blitzed Harvard 6-1 to earn a 6-5 shocker...
What was the matter with Quayle? The addition of music was not appropriate. It definitely showed no understanding of Eine Leerstelle, a lack of taste. It ruined my mood. Ba, ba, bop, Ba, ba, bop. The sound was quadrophonic. It got louder, picked up a jazz beat. Oh Quayle, for shame...