Word: louders
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...great enough to accept and nurture all of its citizens. We believe that most Americans are becoming painfully aware of persecution and inequality. We believe that their hearts are growing and soon, very soon, the love in their hearts will overpower the fear in their minds. It will speak louder than the hatred and evil we constantly battle...
...until another hearing later this month. Still, it seems that for such an important issue that will be affecting all of our lives, the volume of debate over Microsoft on campus keeps getting softer while the steady "ka-ching" of Microsoft money flowing through the Harvard campus keeps getting louder. Perhaps the old business saying should be changed to say, "When money talks, dissent walks...
...learned from a National Geographic special on the praying mantis: I do it in slow motion. When her tiny, beautiful head touches the mattress, her eyes fly open and tears well up in them. She cries, she keens, she wails and howls. She has no middle range; she is louder than anyone else whom I know personally. She cannot be ignored. And so I sling the spit rag over my shoulder and resume walking the floor, a foot soldier in the old campaign, exhausted, milk stained, borderline paranoid, poorly informed, a man nobody would ever hire to look after...
...heard. Gradually I learned by example that I had to be loud to be effective, not only vocally but also physically, contorting my body violently in order to sell each call. As one of my old coaches and fellow umpires would constantly remind me, the closer the call, the louder I had to yell, and the more authoritatively I had to gesture with my arms and legs...
...waved a runner "safe" with your hands but with your mouth you've called her "out." Which to believe? Occasions like this raise an interesting philosophical dilemma, testing the umpire's loyalty to action and language, and forcing him to choose between the two. Although actions may speak louder than words, the action is always more easily transformed than the word. Remember, you can always take your waving hand and make a fist out of it. To say "ou--safe" is far less credible...