Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such uneasy occasion Eichelberger's aide, Major Clyde Schuck, whispered from his foxhole, "General, are you all right?" Getting no answer, he repeated the question in an anxious shout. From Eichelberger's hideout near by came the rumble of the General's voice: "Clyde, my boy, I appreciate your interest, but when the little bastards are infiltrating, I'd just as soon you called...
...only semi-articulate, whether they were soldiers or scientists, or great statesmen, or the simplest of men. But in the dark depths of their minds and hearts, huge forms moved and silently arrayed themselves: Titans, arranging out of the chaos an age in which victory was already only the shout of a child in the street...
...practice radar is not that simple. A conventional transmitter, sending continuous radar waves, would not do, for the same reason that a man roaring incessantly at a cliff would get back only a confusing noise. To get a clear, time-able echo, he must utter a short, sharp shout. That is exactly what radar does. It sends staccato "pulses" of electric energy, each less than a millionth of a second in length, at a rate of about 1,000 a second. Each pulse has time to make a round trip (about a thousandth of a second for a target...
...Jackson!" Dixie had two Negro mess attendants, both conveniently named Jackson. When the Captain ordered coffee sent to his sea cabin, as he did about 20 times a day, all he had to do was shout: "Jackson...
...niggers and Jews of New York are working hand in hand. . . . This is a damnable, Communist, poisonous piece of legislation." When "The Man" Bilbo finally tired, he was spelled by Mississippi's junior Senator, James Oliver Eastland, who can "coon-shout" with the best of them. He took another tack: "We are dealing with an inferior race...