Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deck haul furiously on the sheets to trim sails to the wind. A dozen men grab the hemp lines, thick as a man's wrist, brace their feet on the deck, and haul hand over hand, faces purple with the frantic effort. 'Heave! Heave! Heave!' they shout, as the sail is winched home. Now the wind is picking up, and the ship is beginning to heel over slightly as the sails billow and fill...
...came to London from Paris, where, as Horace Walpole says, "they walk about the streets in the rain with umbrellas to avoid putting on their hats." So whenever London coachmen see anyone using the device, they are apt to crack their whips and shout, "Frenchman!" Or sometimes, more elaborately, "Rain beau...
Behind him, classmates and their wives strolled over to shake hands with Goldberg and Bok. As the classmates approached, Goldberg would shout out a name and a greeting, while Bok would fix a fast glance at everyone's plastic name badge...
...crowd was not happy with the situation. They began to shout and ram the gates, demanding entrance. Teenaged boys scratched their initials and some dirty words into the new paint on the closed gates. This upset a woman in a powder blue pantsuit so that she began to yell, "Stop defacing the beautiful new stadium! Stop it; do you hear!" Pat Cunningham scurried into the V.I.P. entrance to the ballpark. The woman in the pantsuit began to demand that her husband do something about the vandals, whose activity grew more impassioned. Her husband shrugged his shoulders, and as his jacket...
...trial, Assistant District Attorney Newman A. Flanagan drowned his weak appeal in emotionalism. Flanagan could not contradict the overwhelming evidence that the fetus never lived outside of the mother's womb--only this would have legally constituted birth, according to the trial judge, James P. Maguire--but he could shout emotionally that "this is the case of a child that was born." Even given his contention that a child had been born, Flanagan could not prove that the alleged human life Edelin ended was "viable." All he could do was to argue against making patients and their doctors "the absolute...