Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Netted Lumpfish. There were seldom empty beds in Bjorn's household: vagrants and strays of all sorts wandered in and out. One such stray was Gardar Holm, who had the loudest voice in Reykjavik, and who accordingly was sent to Copenhagen to become a singer. Another was a woman from across the island who came to Bjorn's cottage to die because her own children "would never expect me to be so unkind as to die before their eyes...
...heckled the Sing-Out performers mercilessly. They yelled "Fascist!" and "Heil, Hitler!" and worse, especially during the the closing speech of national program director John Sayre. Sayre, a former Olympic gold medal winner in rowing, was visibly shaken by the harrassment. He called it "the worst, most persistent, and loudest heckling we've ever drawn anywhere in the world." That bothered Heikki...
...Negro minister, the Rev. Virgil Wood, jumped up on the platform and shouted "Hitler" while waving his fist at Mrs. Hicks. The very next day, as Mrs. Hicks well knew, was Bunker Hill Day, a public holiday in the working class neighborhood of Charlestown. Mrs. Hicks received the loudest applause given to any politician in the Bunker Hill Dav Parade...
...Governors admitted, however, that the Federal Government in most cases steps in only because state governments have neglected their responsibilities. "Frequently," observed Vermont's Philip Hoff, "the states which cry the loudest for tax sharing are those which have failed to come to grips with their own tax problems." Even while conceding past errors, the Governors agreed that the states are ready to play a stronger role in the federal system. Their prelude promised that in statehouses and on Capitol Hill, federal-state relations will be more closely scrutinized this year than they have been for a generation...
...part of the world never known for unity, the oil-rich countries of the Middle East have been unusually har monious in demanding "akthar, akthar" (more, more) from the Western oil consortiums. The loudest voice has come from Syria, which has no wells but makes do with the next-best thing: a 305-mile stretch of the pipeline through which the Iraq Petroleum Co. pumps oil from its Iraq field to the Syrian port of Baniyas on the Mediterranean. Last week, after weeks of futile negotiations on new rates, Damascus seized the pipeline "to achieve the full rights...