Word: louds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...asking that he be allowed to dictate over the telephone his answers to questions posed by a senior editor, rather than send them by telex. Consumed by the deadline rush, White snapped, "Can't you get to a machine? It really would make things easier for us." Suddenly, a loud explosion echoed across Beirut -- and over the telephone line. Said White: "I take that back. I'll write it down...
Thursday's meeting came soon after Thomas wrote two letters to Frome, one complaining of the loud noise from Greenough late at night and the other asking Harvard for a copy of a memorandum sent to Greenough residents reminding them to keep down noise levels, Thomas said...
...Some people play [music] at excessive volumes, but sometimes [Thomas] is ridiculous," said Bryan Garrett '93, who lives on the side of Greenough facing the courtyard. "He doesn't want anyone doing anything in the backyard--if you read too loud, he comes...
...General Assembly, Gorbachev put on a bravura performance of what he calls new political thinking and set an agenda for a post-cold-war world order. He proclaimed a benevolent decimation of the Soviet armed forces, an effective 10% drawdown in manpower and hardware. He earned loud cheers and enthusiastic praise around the world, but not from the newly elected leader in Washington. George Bush was into his prudence thing, not his vision thing. As the Administration took shape, it radiated not just caution but skepticism, with lots of grumbling about Gorbasms and Gorbomania...
That beeping is pretty loud, and it's not exactly pleasant. But with a lot of concentration, I was able to think of it as musical. After a couple of weeks, I had gotten to the point where, instead of dreaming about screeching hawks, I was dreaming about ice cream trucks. Given a few more weeks, I'm sure I would have dreamt about choirs, or even singing angels...