Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Success, L.I., delegates heard with alarm loud Russian cries of "Munich!" During the debate on Greek policy and the presence of British troops in Greece, Ukrainian Delegate Dmitri Manuilsky rose to shout that he had been accused of "propaganda aims." Said he: "In the light of the experience which we have lived through, we now know that behind all this noise about propaganda was concealed a preparation of an aggressive war. ... It would seem little likely, but it is a fact, that the shadows of Munich are rising again. ... A wall of votes against the Soviet Union is being...
...what I can do." They tell a story, possibly apocryphal, to show that Zinchenko has a sense of humor. An American newsman in Moscow was giving him a sales talk on freedom: "Why, back home," he said, "I can march into the White House at any time, shout 'Down with Truman!' and then march out. Nothing would happen to me." Grinned Zinchenko: "I can do that, too. I can march into the Kremlin at any time, shout 'Down with Truman!' and nothing will happen to me, either...
...their boss, defiantly puffing cigar smoke at the stars, was unmoved by beauty. Sick of his job as UNRRA head, Fiorello H. LaGuardia sent up a tenor shout that carried over the quiet water: "I'd like to cause a fight so that they'd throw me out right...
...Paris started their pilgrimage. By daybreak, they had become a solid grey mass covering the Champs Elysées and the Place de la Concorde, solemnly waiting to pay homage to the American emissary. When finally they spied his carriage, behind its glittering escort of mounted, helmeted guardsmen, a shout of joy vaulted from their silence. Men who heard it said later that the cheer did not sound human, that the (lead must been been crying in it too. Children threw roses and violets. Sobbing men hid their faces and women knelt to pray. The American in the carriage tipped...
Only a handful bought tickets to her first concert in Mexico City last year, but at intermission excited Mexicans rushed into the streets to shout the news of a new discovery. For the encores, the theater was filled, even to standees. The newspaper Novedades raved: "Was it an angel? A nightingale? A flute of gold?" During the next four weeks Ellabelle Davis sang five more concerts; all were sellouts. Finally the Nacional signed her for this season's Aïda. After the opera season she is booked for 21 concerts in Central and South America...