Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years the Russians have lent the Chinese the somewhat unimpressive sum of $430 million, in deals signed only after months of hard bargaining. Currently the Chinese are shipping the Russians $250 million worth of goods a year more than they receive. Still, when the Chinese proclaim loudest of all that Communist strength now exceeds Western strength, the strength they are bragging about is primarily Russia's-Sputniks and missiles...
...your cinema critic perhaps a bit severe in calling Dimitri Tiomkin "probably the world's loudest composer" and stating that his music for the documentary film, Rhapsody of Steel, "bangs away on the sound track like a trip hammer" [Feb. 1]? Actually, the music for Rhapsody of Steel covers a wide dynamic range, with a substantial proportion of subdued effects...
...July 1945, Betancourt attended a conspiratorial meeting with a group of army officers. "The loudest voice in the military group," Betancourt wrote later, "was that of the then Major Marcos Pérez Jiménez," a short, awkward man with "thick tortoise-shell glasses and a stutter." Despite widespread belief that Medina was on the road to democracy already, Betancourt conspired with Perez Jiménez, the future dictator, to overturn President Medina. By the terms of their compact, Betancourt, head of what was by then a strong, left-oriented political party, became Provisional President...
...steel from the first meteor that ever hit the earth to the first manned rocket that leaves it, and most of the time Moviemaker Sutherland proves a slick entertainer and a painless pedagogue. Unhappily, the music of Oscar-Winning Dmitri Tiomkin, who is probably the world's loudest composer, bangs away on the sound track like a trip hammer. But the picture's pace is brisk, its tricks of animation are better than cute, and the plug, when the sponsor slips it in on the final frame, is modestly understated: "A presentation of U.S. Steel...
STAMP OUT INFLATION. Nothing threatens the U.S. economy more than inflation -"a fire that imperils our home." Despite the steel strike, said Ike amid the loudest applause of his speech, the U.S.'s books should show a surplus of $200 million for this (1960) fiscal year. Then Ike read out a passage that he had kept secret from his closest advisers until time of delivery. For fiscal 1961 (ending June 30, 1961), he said, he would submit a balanced budget of $79.8 billion-and this time the U.S. ought to rack up a surplus of $4.2 billion. The surplus...