Word: shoutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alternately sullen and sad. In her best song, I Hate Sundays ("Every day of the week is empty and hollow, but there's worse than the weekday, there's pretentious Sunday"), her voice faded to an organ whisper. Even in the gayer songs, delivered in a gutty shout, she seemed to be drowning out the memory of something she would rather forget...
Directing the trembling Abu Nuwar to return and wait for him at the palace, the young King leaped atop an armored car and shouted: "If you do not want me as your King, I will go!" With a tremendous shout, the Bedouins ripped off their headdresses and threw them on the ground-a spontaneous Arab gesture of loyalty and acclaim...
Hitler has begun to shout in beer gardens. The book has many moments of Rabelaisian vulgarity, including a hilarious bordello scene, but they seem deliberately injected for shock value. As for the symbolism and the irony (though Remarque says no symbolism was intended), they could scarcely be more obvious-the most valuable stone, a black obelisk, winds up as the marker over a prostitute's grave, and in a post-World War II epilogue, only the madhouse and the maternity hospital are left undamaged. Remarque has long ago mastered a direct, insistent style that keeps the pages turning even...
Israel matched Egypt shout for shout, threat for threat. The Egyptian move to take over Gaza's civil administration was a long way from the unilateral "assumptions" that Israel had depended upon in agreeing to withdraw from Gaza. Premier Ben-Gurion gravely faced the Knesset and warned that Israel's troops might soon have to march again. Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Abba Eban was called away from a well-earned Florida vacation to present to Acting State Secretary Christian Herter a Ben-Gurion message describing the situation as extremely critical...
Chuteside watchers could hear him shout as he hit Battledore: "Faster, goddammit. Let's go faster." At Shuttlecock he misjudged by the merest fraction of an inch. His spiked shoes grabbed empty air as he catapulted over the rim and soared ten feet into the snow. Seconds later he was up, unhurt-but disqualified from a Cresta race for the first time in his career...