Word: scream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dixiecrats and the Progressives, certain that they would poll sizable votes, were aroused; they were far from amiable, and the issues they raised might be serious enough to cause some permanent political realignments. But between now and election day, those minor voices would recede into a distant, thin scream which would be pretty well drowned out. The major candidates would occupy the center of the stage...
...trim little Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass, was fairly bursting with sculptured emotion last week. Some figures wept, some prayed, some chewed their nails. Another sat on a pedestal and seemed to scream...
Herbert Kappler had heard Italians scream before-at the Ardeatine Caves, for instance, where in 1944 he, as 55 chief in Rome, had directed the massacre of 335 Italian hostages as reprisal for the bombing of 32 Nazi police in a Roman street...
...purists were fighting uphill. Most of Quebec's women say "lipstick" for rouge a levres, and "Cutex" (a trade name) for any nail polish-vernis a angles. In the sports arena, their menfolk scream: L'arbitre est un robber! A prizefight announcer cries: Le champion a knockoute son adversaire. And French Canadians of both sexes grin as they say II faut se watcher...
Father Calkins, pointing out that the practice is widespread among U.S. Catholics, inveighs against the "vicious Rhythm mentality-a state of mind that won't trust God . . . These bleeding hearts, especially busybodies-in-Iaw and nosy neighbors, scream protestingly: 'Who'll take care of the next baby?' The simple answer is: The same God that takes care of you even when you resist His Will. 'But we must give our children security and education.' Just because God doesn't give parents and children all today's phony materialistic standards require, doesn...