Word: shoutingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adding to that worry were the controls imposed on telephone conversations: "Calls have been limited to three minutes, and are a particularly exquisite form of torture: the three minutes begin as soon as the connection is made. Invariably the person you are calling comes on just in time to shout 'Who's this?' before the operator interrupts to tell you, 'Your three minutes are up. You may say goodbye...
...before he could begin the second line, a student began to wave his arms and shout, "I know a poem like that." After a moment the student subsided, and I.A. Richards went...
...followers listen closely to the rambling and often repetitive discourses of the Mahatmas, enthusiasm surfacing only in the chants they shout at the beginning and end of each speech. Sitting bolt upright, they seem to hang on to every word with a fascination that is almost childlike in its intensity. Their faith, founded on a common experience, is apparently unassailable as long as the experience remains...
...infallible logic made her look clumsy and irrational, and she failed ever to muster as clean a logic when pitted against him. He would retreat to a citadel of rationality and leave her flailing outside with futile goading and gadfly jabbing. Frustrated by her powerlessness, she could only shout. And I'd blame her as peacebreaker when it was his cool male aplomb that had subtly rendered...
...soldiers are not to be seduced. They are doggedly anti-Communist-RECONQUER THE MAINLAND! a sign at the airport proclaims. They maintain defenses that probably will never be used, and when the woman broadcasts from the mainland, they shout back. Neither side listens...