Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maxence d'Entremont was a big, jovial man with a big round head, no hair, a prominent brow, wide shoulders, a deep chest, long legs and almost no neck. When the doorbell rang in the morning he would shout: "The police!" When he led his daughter across the street he would say: "Let's keep together; it will cost them more to run over two persons." He could sketch brilliantly, but would not. He fought 17 duels...
...most amazing revelations," said Colonel Grinker, "has been the universality of guilt reactions." A flyer catches a bad cold and is unable to take off; another man goes in his place, and is lost in action. The first man is very likely to feel guilty . . . and under narcosynthesis may shout, "I should have got it instead...
...Bold Ones Shout. In war, as in peace, the peasants work their patches of land as best they can. No one calls it collective farming, but everyone helps his neighbor and contributes to the Army. The Partisan movement's strong Communist element, Communist Tito's connections with Moscow have not noticeably altered the ways of Yugoslav peasants...
...people do not grumble when they are vexed by authority. They shout, and the Partisan Command listens. A peasant told the Partisan Command that he was sorry, but he could not give up his horse for transport until the plowing was done. Patiently the Partisan Command waited. Correspondent Pribichevich's landlady came home one day in a rage. She had been held for questioning because she had tried to salvage some wood from a bombed building...
...Negro troops, acceptance by their white comrades-in-arms was some thing to shout about. There had been gibes when units of the 93rd landed on Bougainville, on the heels of the Americal Division. The Americal knew by then what jungle fighting was like. They doubted that the "Tan Yanks" would stand up under the jungle's strange and silent horrors...