Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exaggeration in the statement that during these years the fourth floor of the IAB became a haven for weekend-knitters and others who sought the comforts of lightly soothing entertainment. All of the "ugly" elements of "professionalism" were absent; the shoving, crowded masses of basketball fans who spit, scream, swear, and elbow their team on to victory rarely climbed the four flights of stairs more than once...
...turf. The owner winces but Mrs. Woodhouse keeps on talking-and jerking. "This is what some dogs do and their poor owners go weak around the gills [jerk]. Stop, you naughty dog [jerk]. This is all put on for the benefit of anyone who might be sympathetic [jerk]. Well, scream away," she tells the yelping dog. Suddenly the Samoyed is heeling beautifully-and his tail has never stopped wagging. The other dogs respond as well. "If you give him a good jerk," says Mrs. Woodhouse, "the dog will really love...
OUTSIDE THE BUILDING, amid a frenzy of picture-taking by the press and by Harvard officials, a crowd of curious onlookers kept watch over the scene. Some of the more hostile of their number muttered or ran up to the windows to scream about "what these women need." Other sympathetic men automatically sat vigil in case of a bust, offering to assist in protecting the building. But the women inside said no; they had taken the building, made it habitable, and should they decide to defend it, they would do it themselves...
...made the man repeat it twice!" bubbled Myrna Borling. "Then I fell apart. I cried, I think. Maybe I spoke a loud prayer. I wanted to run out into the street and just scream -'He's coming home...
...gulp? Why try to overtake history? Start slowly, read the leading fiction bestseller. Escape for a while." He picks up Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The story of a what? Of a goddam bird? His eye roves to the self-help books. Here's one: Primal Scream. He tries...