Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slowly but persistently emerged as the top American pianist in his age group. His plat form manner is nononsense, but at the peak of his form he stirs poetry, fire and steel into whatever he plays. At a time when most younger American per formers make their loudest noise in the flashier side of the repertory -Prokofiev, Bartok, Liszt and the more extroverted Chopin - Graffman has matured into a musician able to challenge Europe's best in the more substantial classical and early romantic repertory...
...commotion, America's mighty Saturn 5, spewed brilliant flames and rose majestically on a flight that revitalized the lagging Apollo program and raised hopes that the U.S. may yet land men on the moon before 1970. Generating 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust and one of the loudest sounds ever produced by man,* the first-stage engines lifted the 3,000-ton, 363-foot-high vehicle to an altitude of 38 miles and a speed of 6,100 m.p.h. only 21 minutes after liftoff. During this stage of the flight, the rocket, taller than the Statue of Liberty, could...
...recent years, the loudest voices within U.S. Christianity have been those of radical theologians urging the church to greater involvement with world issues. The mood of activism reached a peak in Detroit last month, where the Conference on Church and Society, sponsored by the National Council of Churches, exhorted U.S. religious leaders to grant sanctuary to draft dodgers, accept violence as a valid response to certain social injustices, and incite a nationwide strike if the war escalates into an invasion of North Viet...
Johnson's loudest applause-after the round that greeted his support for higher police pay-was evoked by his condemnation of racial violence in the slums. "Much can explain but nothing can justify the riots of 1967," he said. Condemning Black Power agitators, "whose interests lay in provoking others to destruction while they fled its consequences," Johnson declared: "These wretched, vulgar men-these poisonous propagandists-posed as spokesmen for the underprivileged and capitalized on the real grievances of the suffering people...
...Nobody ever got further with less talent," Eddie Stanky has said of his eleven-year playing career in the majors-during which he batted only .268 but played in three World Series and earned a well-deserved reputation as the meanest, toughest, loudest scrapper in the business. "The Brat" was an expert at collecting bases on balls, breaking up double plays, and heckling and generally enraging opponents. Now 49 and in his second year as manager of the Chicago White Sox, who last week were leading the American League by 4½ games, Stanky insists that he is as smooth...