Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...library users have experienced the most disturbance. The daily construction noise is the loudest in there," said Marjorie B. Cohn, acting director of the Fogg...
...once so shy she cried over having to speak to the Houston Garden Club, delivered the speech of her life. She admonished the audience to find something bigger than themselves to believe in, to share laughter, find joy in life and cherish, above all, human connections. The loudest cheer came when she delivered the predictable but nonetheless effective kicker: "Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well...
...spills his latest secrets on a double comedy album, The Day the Laughter Died, which, the warning label advises us, "contains filthy language and no jokes!!!" Talk about truth in advertising: in 100 minutes of banter there are not half a dozen good dirty jokes. Yet some of the loudest laughter comes from women. Good sports at their own immolation, they giggle and groan along with their beaux. Perhaps proving they are tough is as important to them as it is to men. Others have found the spectacle less edifying. One woman at Madison Square Garden listened to Clay...
None of this has gone unnoticed. In 1988, with trade representative Clayton Yeutter screaming loudest, the Reagan Administration declared U.S. sugar policy an abomination and tried unsuccessfully to change it. As Bush's Agriculture Secretary, Yeutter has apparently flipped. The Administration's proposed farm-program reforms leave sugar policy intact...
...surprisingly, the influx of married priests has met resistance within the ranks of the Catholic clergy. Some of the loudest complaints have come not from traditionalists who think celibacy might be undermined but from liberal priests and nuns. One reason: the U.S. converts are mostly theological conservatives who left the clergy of the Episcopal Church because of that denomination's leftward drift on liturgy, doctrine and discipline -- particularly the Episcopalians' decision in 1976 to admit women priests. Also the wife of one priestly convert told Fichter she had run into resentment from nuns who wanted to become priests...