Word: loudnesses
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...light on violence and lack of discipline among even the youngest American schoolchildren [Dec. 15]. But you only vaguely addressed the true root of the trouble: bad parenting. Sure, violent video games, television and movies are part of the problem, but no one seems to want to say out loud that parents are ultimately at fault for raising these disruptive, violent children. Negligent parents and an ever growing number of unstable families have bred an entire generation of children who live without discipline and receive no adult guidance. If children are being raised this way, what will the world...
When Summers, sporting a gray argyle sweater and black slacks, took the microphone, the crowd erupted in loud cheers, whistles and catcalls...
...might have been the sound of wheels spinning in mud, or perhaps the chattering whine of a tortured transmission. Or it might have been the increasingly loud imprecations I was directing at my driver. Whatever the cause, we had suddenly become the focus of several hundred wild elephants. Those nearest began to stomp toward us, thumping their trunks on the ground...
...little spring hand exercisers. And then he reached into the same drawer with his other hand and pointed to a small paper box the size of a jewelry box. With one hand pumping, smiling broadly, he lifted the lid. The music started, filling the vast room. It was Sousa, loud and brassy and in your face: Stars and Stripes Forever...
...Tomb Raiders had ever conducted. And so the hooch became a training center. Every afternoon the platoon practiced close-quarters combat and house-clearing techniques in the basement. Colgan rearranged the furniture to simulate different settings and ordered three $300 battering rams for kicking in doors. "Get in loud, fast and violent," he told them, while insisting that they treat those they found inside with respect. "They're young, they're new," Colgan wrote of the platoon in an email to his sister Liz. "But they're doing good...