Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bullets flew, he slumped convincingly over a table, then rolled to the floor. His comely companion cried holy murder, which made Mailer especially proud. She is his sixth and current wife Norris Church, 31. Said he: "Did you hear her? Weren't those just the loudest possible screams...
Silence smothers Vanderbilt Hall like a wet blanket. You can stand in the courtyard of the Medical School's only dormitory on a Saturday night, and the loudest sound you hear is your own breathing. Wait a minute! What's going on here? Isn't this a Saturday night? Isn't this a dormitory? And don't 250 students live here? So where is everybody? Where is the party, the beer, the music? At least there should be some music! Over in the common room some guy is playing the piano and upstairs some other guy is doing a Gregorian...
...other Harvard heros of the day were in the Youth Eight, which finished in second place, just two seconds behind Yale. Those two seconds were lost when the crowd was densest and loudest--under the Anderson bridge...
...model in 15 years. In an understated manner, Rolls-Royce likes to boast about the subtle engineering changes in its vehicles; among other things, the Silver Spirit features a new digital-display clock that replaces the famous ticking one, which according to a famous old Rolls ad was the loudest thing one could hear as the car purred along at 60 m.p.h. But if you have to ask about the gas mileage, you cannot afford to buy one; the Spirit gets between 10 and 14 m.p.g. The car is priced to sell in Britain for $119,000, and will undoubtedly...
Some of the loudest criticism of the U.S. came from representatives of developing countries. By the year 2020, they will be using as much energy as the developed world now consumes; but they have neither the money nor the resources to pay for expensive oil. Said Carlos Castro Madero, an official of the Argentine Atomic Energy Commission: "Every watt of energy the U.S. fails to produce by nuclear power must be produced by oil. Every barrel of oil burned by the U.S. is a barrel for which we must compete on the market, and this means higher prices...