Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could fairly compare Perón's Argentina to a European police state. Socialists, even Communists, could stage street-corner meetings and shout bitterly against the Government, if they dared the stones of exuberant Perónistas. But the press throttle was ominous, even though Perónistas, who blandly assert that the press is free, could point to La Prensa's reprinting excerpts from last week's warning by the New York Times: "This is the classic first step by which dictatorship is imposed upon a people. By its very nature, dictatorship moves inexorably to stifle...
...demonstration started, Yard police said, when a group of about 50 youths...boys and girls returning from a nearby high school dance through the Yard, paused to shout at lighted windows. A proctor in Strans Hall, attempting to remonstrate with the group, was nearly set upon by the mob. Yard police claimed...
...they are about to leave the quaint fishing village for Paris and married love, Mitchum turns up from years of imprisonment, with a beard and more desire than both of them put together. A beautifully photographed fog promptly descends, through which the three principals grope, knife, shoot and shout their way toward a predictable ending...
...cost 50 centavos a kilo in 1940 now cost 1.65 pesos, the stall-keeper glibly blames la situation Rusa or la inundation de Florida. Unconvinced that the Russians or the Florida hurricane has any connection, the housewife calls for witnesses to behold how she is being robbed; she may shout the top-drawer insult hambreador (hunger-maker), wind up with a call for el paredón (wall used as a backstop for firing squads...
...perhaps to the intriguing nature of the mysterious, scarcely a person passes the mushrooming "Science City" on Oxford Street without a fearful glance through the fence to see whether the men from Mars have arrived. Yet little more than a hoarse shout away from the Home of Secret Weapons is an underground room where precautions are just as stringent. In a small, feverish nook in the cellar of the Music Building, the University Band holds its council of war, and there, amidst sousaphones and bandstands, it plots the marching formations and intricate parade tactics that are forever eluding every other...