Word: shoutingly
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...Republican Representative Jim Saxton yells, "'Where did you learn economics, Mr. Secretary?'" and, jumping up and down, "'Evidence! Evidence!'" Reich says he was attacked by cigar-puffing capitalists at a lunch speech: "There isn't a lady in the room. All men...ready for the kill." They hiss and shout, "'Wrong!' 'Bull____!' 'Go back to Harvard."' Great stuff, but it never happened, according to tapes and transcripts dug up by Rauch. Saxton was less Savonarola than Mister Rogers; the hearing was dull, even for C-SPAN. The lunch was breakfast, the room nonsmoking and nonhissing, and a third...
...evening at the house of then AFL-CIO chief Lane Kirkland and his wife Irena, and got just about everything wrong: the Kirklands aren't high society, and Irena is not a snooty Hungarian but a Czech survivor of the Holocaust who does her own cooking. She did not shout "No!" at Reich, grabbing his wrist to keep him from misusing the mint jelly, causing the table to go still, appalled by the "country bumpkin...
...might be considered a status symbol--but so are a lot of other things that are less obviously useful yet don't arouse public ire. It should be recognized that the cell phone is just a tool. What determines rudeness is how it is used. People who need to shout into their cell phone probably just need a better phone, but shouting itself is already an etiquette violation...
...trouble: an aneurysm of the splenetic artery. In chilling but mesmerizing detail, he explains how he slowed, then stopped, the bleeding and excised the damaged artery. Afterward, this veteran of hundreds of operations found himself in a state of near euphoria: "Something within me wanted to sing and shout, to dance carefree and make love, to acclaim my triumph to the heavens and the ages--a woman's life had been saved, and I would always remember the wonder of this night...
...obese white male behind the wheel of the ancient white Cadillac began to shout racist slurs both at the driver and the man standing in the parking space...