Word: shoutting
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...snow. The seas are pounding in 15-ft. waves, and all sensible fishermen have long since headed for port. But here, in the glare of arc lamps, heavily clothed figures are wrestling with craneloads of drill casings, dancing about on the slippery, freezing deck like madmen. No need to shout here: the screaming wind and throbbing drill machinery make conversation next to impossible...
...circular upper hall with its white cupola is bathed in electric light, and from the depths of the station, along two parallel escalators, Muscovites rise to meet us in serried ranks. They all seem to look at me as if expecting me to shout at least one word of truth. Why am I silent? ... Because these Muscovites standing on the escalator stairs are not numerous enough; my cry would be heard by 200, perhaps 400 people. But what about my 200,000,000 compatriots? I have a vague premonition that one day I will scream out to all those...
...Kavanagh's death, the letters take on a deepened significance, especially the following passage: "Yesterday I stood looking out of the window where I am, and I wished you'd come round the corner, quick, a surprise, I'd have gone on my tiptoes to shout your name out of the window. Love, that I would, since people round here think I haven't a son at all, that's what they're like these days, can't even dream about nice things happening these times...
...Civil War. Too often, though, documentary journalists concentrated more on their own responses than on the experience or the social predicament of the people whom they photographed and described. At Stott points out, there was something spurious about Margaret Bourke-White's photographs of smiling sharecroppers that seemed to shout at me, I'm so poor. I don't know how wretched I really...
Many parents feared for their children's safety because the time change meant that most had to go to school in the dark. In Philadelphia, an angry mother rose at a neighborhood school-board meeting to shout: "It's dangerous for our kids to go to school through pitch-black streets full of abandoned buildings. Mothers, stop dragging your feet. Open schools later in the day or our children are going to get hurt...