Word: shouted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...husband sat in a daze while people in the adjoining makeshift shelters not more than four feet away were going about their business of cooking, eating and sleeping as if the dead woman were not there. 'I've got a body here,' I heard one young volunteer shout to an official. 'What do I do with it?' The official shrugged. Throw it out back with the others,' he said. The bodies collected in the rear of the camp are then gathered up, placed on ox carts, and taken to a nearby Buddhist temple for burial...
...Philadelphia, Kennedy clambers onto a table. He has no text. His sentences are simpler. His speech strikes a booming rhythm, and the crowd chants in response to him. "At other times in our history when we were facing problems, we didn't throw up our hands in despair." "No!" shouts the crowd. "We didn't talk about malaise in the American spirit." "No!" comes the reply. "We rolled up our sleeves." "Yes!" the people shout. "And set out on the job to be done...
...stock ticker-they only begin the list. Though Alexander Graham Bell devised the first telephone transmitter and receiver, it was Edison who worked out a system of reproducing phone conversations over long distances loudly enough that they could be heard easily, and who may have been the first to shout "hello" into a telephone mouthpiece. His one discovery in basic science-the "Edison effect," the emission of electrons from a heated electric conductor-led eventually to the creation of the electronics industry. which has given the world radio, television, computers, radar and other marvels. Indeed, Edison's inventions...
...loosen up, Janus says, and she's counting on the cheerleaders to get them going. Janus is a shouter at games. One Saturday afternoon she let out a particularly lusty bellow and a distinguished crusty alumni next to her glared. "Madam," he corrected, "It's not appropriate to shout...
...Golden Slave portrayed by Nijinsky, and the unexpected colors of Bakst. That was succeeded by the most famous opening-night brawl in history, when a glittering crowd booed Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. Nijinsky, who choreographed the Rite, was forced to stand on a chair backstage and shout instructions above the din. La Belle Epoque was over...