Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said he: "There is great humanity in that." Shuttling to Washington, D.C. for a day, they marveled at the give-and-take between newsmen and President Eisenhower at a press conference. "It's like pupils in school," chuckled Semeonov. "The reporters all jump up at once and shout, and the President points at one and says 'you.' " Asked why he never criticizes the Soviet government in his cartoons, Semeonov deadpanned: "In the Soviet Union we have a tradition not to draw cartoons critical of people whom everyone respects and admires...
Despite the fact that he draws much of his loudest support from the chauvinists who shout "Algeria is French," most of the men closest to De Gaulle are convinced that he would give independence to Algeria in one form or another. This is why Moslem leaders like Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba also call for De Gaulle's return. Paradoxically, even some of the noisiest proponents of a tough line in Algeria, such as Jacques Soustelle, believe that a France revitalized by De Gaulle could give Algeria some form of self-government inside a North African Federation related...
...Latin Quarter. In a white gown with red lining, she steps before the gold-spangled curtain and gives a wild-riding reading of Witchcraft, her pelvis bumping out the rhythm, her copper-red hair whipping over her face. Her big-bodied voice can flare to an exuberant shout or sink away to a foggy, muted-trumpet whisper. Occasionally, as she sweeps her almond eyes over the ringside tables, she lets flutter a throaty, tongue-trilling sound that suggests nothing so much as the invitation of an amorous cobra. Within the framework of That Old Black Magic she sings a medley...
...more rats." "Nobody is arrogant here, nobody is grabby, nobody feels himself above or below anybody else." The whole population is "identically dressed in blue cotton." "Nightclubs and brothels have gone," and there is "not one drunkard." Pedicab operators are so content that they no longer quarrel and shout; when "two bicycles or pedicabs collide, those involved exchange smiles." Every morning, all the ministerial bureaucrats "line up in front of the administration buildings" and perform calisthenics -"mildly incongruous," perhaps, but "nothing [is] more reasonable than the principle of compulsory physical education." Such "germ carriers" as "dogs and cats" have been...
...With shout, though it is but his monologue...