Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this quiet level Tom Dewey had opened his campaign. As a triumphal trip it bore not the slightest resemblance to Wendell Willkie's 1940 beginnings, when voters packed the sidewalks and jammed arenas to hear the big, attractive, tousled, hoarse candidate shout his gospel. Dewey got small crowds, few cheers, and in all probably shook no more than 7,500 hands on the whole trip. But as he returned to Pawling this week, Tom Dewey knew that it was still August. Between now and the last week of October lay much planning, much hard work...
...hated Militia. Some collaborationists killed themselves rather than surrender to their neighbors. In an alley two gendarmes forced a collaborationist to his knees, cocked pistols at his head, made him salute the Tricolor. Nearby another group dragged along an Italian by the hair, made him kneel and shout Vive la France! Then they slugged him on the head, kicked him, spat on him. But he was lucky...
...hurried through into the main room, and alongside the straw mattresses laid out by Italian refugees ... I gave a shout ... as I realized I was looking at Botticelli's Primavera...
...were up early, shining their shoes, polishing their buttons. As the train pulled into Baltimore at 6:30 a.m. there was a shout: "Bring on the brass band." There was no band nor any people, and the homecoming marines got off and walked through the silent station...
Partisan detachments and pack animals in pokret, often camouflaged by green branches tied on their backs, sneak through the wilderness in single file, some times stretching out several miles. Every man must shout, "Veza!" (Contact!) when he loses sight of the man in front or behind. Orders are continually passed from mouth to mouth along the Indian file. Our first pokret covered 25 miles of wilderness in 14 hours at night...