Word: shouting
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...Lord of the Rings was published in the U.S. in 1965, it and other versions sold more than a million copies within a year. GANDALF FOR PRESIDENT buttons appeared on wide late-1960s lapels, and frodo lives was scrawled on subway cars. Led Zeppelin gave Gollum a shout-out in Ramble On. Tolkien inspired an American insurance salesman named Gary Gygax to quit his job and create Dungeons and Dragons, the fantasy role-playing game that launched a million junior high school wedgies...
...appalled by the tactics of some of the characters sitting in the audience who tried to shout down Professor Chomsky and several verbally assaulted me, calling me a Jewish self-hater,” said Judith Koffler, a graduate of Harvard Law School...
...catch up with Ozzy and wife manager Sharon primping for the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the annual fete during which the two nerdiest groups of celebrities--politicians and journalists--surround themselves with actual stars to bask in the reflected cool. As George W. Bush gives Ozzy a shout-out from the podium and the Prince of Darkness leads the room in applause for himself, you hope that someone had the good sense to take away William Bennett's steak knife...
Suppose I shout racist slogans in Harvard Square. Having spoken my mind freely, I will have scorn heaped upon me by those who are free to speak theirs: I will be chilled. This is a triumph of free expression. If, on the other hand, criticism is not warranted—and Paulin’s defenders say it is not, claiming his remarks were taken out of context—the appropriate response is not “how dare you criticize me,” but “here’s why your criticism is wrong...