Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American journalism. He had an old score to settle. In October 1945, just before Peron's two-day fall from power, La Prensa had thundered that the Government should be turned over to the Supreme Court. Furious, Juan Peron had replied: "I shall not permit La Prensa to shout the Government down." He has never forgotten. It would have been hard to forget, for La Prensa has been the oak around which much of Peron's opposition has rallied, perhaps without a full realization that it is in the midst of social revolution...
Free State, most Anglophobic of all South Africa's provinces. Along their route sturdy Boer farmers forsook ploughs and politics to shout greetings. Schoolchildren lined the wayside stations and at one siding a dark, native choir sang the Hallelujah Chorus-"with superb effect," reported the Times of London...
...Pound still rises at 5:30, lumbers into his book-lined office promptly at 7. There he works with his nose almost touching the papers before him. His desk is piled so high with books that he and his secretary, mutually invisible, have to shout at each other...
...what their desires or intentions were is of little significance when one considers the effects of their so-called neutrality. On the one hand, they elected to stay in Germany in order to play, and to play they had pretty much to be good little boys. The great shout in favor of Furtwangler was that he "didn't throw out the Jews until he had to" and that he was responsible for getting many Jewish musicians out of danger (e.g. Carl Flesch). One noted English pianist, however, who was asked to join a group to defend the conductor, told...
...final, unanswerable weapon--the troops. The response was immediate, and directly adverse to what Americans, judging from past faith in the efficacy of olive drab uniforms and bayonetted rifles, would consider natural. Instead of calling the men back into the driver's seat, the truckers felt disposed to shout "Blacklegs!" at the Tommies who were learning a new twist to the King's service. Hopping mad, the Union began bellowing for a general strike to end the "betrayal" by its own national leaders, voting at the same time to keep away from the garages. The strike finally ended only when...