Word: scream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment we received the name of our home for the next three years on a slip of paper at 8 a.m., we all screamed. It was not a scream of joy. We were in Grays; you could have heard us in the Science Center. That day, I walked around campus avoiding the glances of friends, not wanting to hear the inevitable "Eliot" and "Lowell" and the accompanying smiles. But I couldn't evade them all, and so I unswervingly received so-called "humorous" responses of "Oh, I'm sorry" and "See you in three years" from supposedly well-meaning peers...
...There was a whole string of incidents when he would scream at secretaries," one of Orren's co-workers says. "This was before Gary had tenure. They gave him tenure anyway...
...playful refinement, Scott's performance works best when he banters with Polonius (David Cromwell) or soundly rejects the love of Ophelia (Natacha Roi). But his passionate soliloquies fall flat, failing to tear the polite veneer from his countenance. His only way of communicating unbridled passion is with a hollow scream, which sounds insincere and empty...
...concert goes ahead as planned, and if the optimistically-predicted 2,000 students attend, they will spend three hours together hardly able to hear one another speak. They will yell and scream and dance and sing--it'll be a great concert, if the council doesn't somehow botch it, but that's all it will be. Students won't leave the concert feeling any more part of a college community than when it started. For that to happen, we might suggest a group "Kumbaya" sing-along in Sanders. But that wouldn't cost $15,000 of our money...
That doesn't mean "you scream publicly," Forbes said. "You don't cause China to lose face needlessly. You hit them hard in private and send an unmistakable public signal. You send the Navy to the Taiwan Strait. You don't explain why. You just do it. They'll get the message." Forbes was heartened when Clinton had the aircraft carrier Nimitz steam between China and Taiwan last December, but "dumbfounded" when "some stupid functionary said it was there only because of bad weather in the Pacific." But what if China lobbed missiles at Taiwan instead of invading...