Word: scream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first hot breath of summer is upon the land, and with it has come a perennially deepening dementia that turns otherwise lucid adults into drooling, lip-smacking lunatics, children into chocolate-mustachioed gluttons and family dogs into insatiable beggars. This year, more than ever before, they all scream for ice cream...
During the year that followed these sophomores would get together again, late at night, and scream. Nathan Pusey had brought the police to Harvard Yard. No one knows if he has screamed in the years that followed. Or indeed if he ever screamed in his life. Nathan Pusey is graduating...
...believe me. Because you might not have read about the things I'm going to tell you in your newspapers, and if you really think the Times prints all the news there is, then you'll think I'm lying. And if, in some kind of final desperation, you scream out It can't happen here, then I'm going to tell you you're wrong. It did happen here. Again...
Betty Edwards, a member of the Compassionate Friends, encountered those defenses. "A few weeks after my 22-year-old son was killed racing," she recalls, "a friend talked to me about everything under the sun; and I wanted to scream because she didn't mention John. She thought she was doing me a kindness, but I didn't want my son forgotten. The trouble is, most people have this little bit of fear that what has happened to your child could happen to theirs, and they don't want to face...
...voice shaking slightly in anger and horror, betraying the tone of one who has seen almost too much, the speaker beseeched us not to cry. It was too late for that. He could ask only that we act. Perhaps that too was why we were here-to stand and scream "no" to something so horrendous it could not really be faced. Because only such a scream could tell us we were really alive ourselves...