Word: noisier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists, numerically weak and partially outlawed, are now promoting underground terror and sabotage, agitating even in the jails where Nehru and his Congress comrades once languished. On the far right loom the Hindu chauvinists, the Hindu Mahasabha. Beside them, noisier, more militant and dangerous, are the R.S.S. (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-literally, Organization for Service of the Nation). They spawned Gandhi's assassin; they could still undo the communal peace so painfully...
More Peace & Quiet. The Viscount 700 takes off with little noise. Inside the cabin, it is no noisier than in a passenger automobile. The vibration is so slight that coins can be stood on their edges and pencils on their ends for 20 minutes at a time. Vickers is counting heavily on the public's reaction to the Viscount's peace & quiet. "Once a passenger has had a ride on a turboprop," said a spokesman, "he won't go back to the noise and vibration of piston engines...
...same is not true of the girls. Not only would joint exams upset them emotionally (they claim), but they would mean a practical end to their honor system, a highly prized privilege at the Annex. Against this, the administration puts the argument that exams with Harvard are no noisier than separate tests where the girls can come and go unwatched. They also claim that joint exams give Radcliffe a chance to ask professors questions...
...Some non-Japanese flower listeners say that the evening primrose (Oenothera) makes a "snapping" sound when it opens. Seed pods, of course, can be much noisier; on warm September days phlox pods explode with a soft pop. The squirting cucumber (Ecballium) of Southern Europe sounds like a cork leaving a champagne bottle, and the tropical sandbox tree (Hura, crepitans) has an orange-sized capsule which "explodes with a loud report...
Along about 1:30, the waiter slipped Betty the tab. It came to roughly $2,500. Betty wrote a check, and the party boisterously headed for fresh triumphs at the noisier Copacabana. Betty was having a wonderful time, even though the bottom of her dress was hanging in strips where people had trodden on it. But it was obviously getting too tiring for ladies like her mother. Her mother, Mrs. Robert J. Faulkner, is 95 and does not drink. Leaning on her cane and her daughter, mother was taken home...