Word: rasping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HARVARD Yard was a mosaic of confused activity as the university moved into its second week of crisis. The throb of rock bands echoed from the old walls, sometimes drowning out the rhythmic chants of black militants, often punctuated by the harsh rasp of bullhorns blaring out strike messages. The walled yard had the air of an ancient red brick city under siege. White sheets emblazoned with STRIKE in bold red letters hung from the windows of freshman dormitories and classroom buildings. Strike posters and copies of the antiadministration underground paper Old Mole were stapled to the venerable elm trees...
...acting make her seem as if she had gone sleepless since her last picture. The dubbed voice of that fine character actor. Jack Hawkins, limited to esophageal speaking since his operation for throat cancer two years ago, is thin, out-of-sync and does not remotely resemble his distinctive rasp. Even Chato, the Indian chief, is misplayed. The part was given to Woody Strode, a Negro ex-football star for the Los Angeles Rams. He speaks, and looks, like a redskin in blackface...
...final section to "get brighter, and end with optimism for the Great Society which we hope to get." Over crashing percussion, the music mounted in overlapping panels of winds and strings. But it all seemed pumped up; and the amplified piano vibrations that ended the work were like the rasp of escaping air as the climax, the theme of hope, and the listener's expectations all deflated at once...
...Ikeda does not lie!", intoned in a rasp ing, gravelly voice, was his slogan, and it aptly described his administration...
...Illinois Pavilion, Audio-ani-matronic Abe Lincoln, who had been suffering from electronic megrims until engineers fiddled with the circuitry that makes his eyes blink, his voice rasp and his hands gesture, began to work. Abe rose to greet 500 people at a time, pushed back his coattails and gave them a ten-minute talk on liberty, gleaned from six of his speeches: "What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoasts . . . Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage...