Word: shoutting
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...difference, says a Japanese diplomat, is that "in Japan when you love a girl, there is an expression: 'Eyes talk.' But in your country when you love a girl, you must shout 'I love you, I love you, I love you!' " Up to now, the Japanese have learned neither how to shout nor how to react when others are doing the shouting. The result is a sense of gnawing unease for an emerging superpower that has yet to establish its identity...
There-are people who doubt it. There are people who doubt it and shout it out loud, There are local vocal yokels who we know collect a crowd. They can fashion a rebuttal that's as subtle as a sword, But they're never gonna scuttle the Word of the Lord...
...more universal concerns. Skinner worries about the fact that, as Walden Two's Frazier put it, "our civilization is running away like a frightened horse. As she runs, her speed and her panic increase together. As for your politicians, your professors, your writers?let them wave their arms and shout as wildly as they will...
John Wilkes Booth at least had the grace to shout "Sic semper tyrannis!" Until lately, most political assassins have felt obliged to dress up their acts of public murder with some pretext of historic purpose. But the Jackal, an Englishman and pseudo gentleman, yearns for nothing more uplifting than the good life. When he gets an assignment from the OAS (France's antigovernment secret army of the early 1960s) to do in Charles de Gaulle, he looks on it simply as a "once in a lifetime job." If he brings it off, he will be able to retire...
...central Japan, members of a society of war-bereaved families who had just toured the island of Hokkaido. Half an hour later, cruising at 28,000 ft., the pilot of the Boeing 727 found himself closing in on an F-86 Sabre jet. He had time only to shout a Mayday message before his plane and the jet collided. The airliner disintegrated, showering debris for miles around and killing all 162 passengers and crew. It was the largest number of people ever to die in a single air disaster...