Word: sound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fairview, Ark. playful Otis Jones, 10, hid in a tree, mimicked a squirrel's chittering. Fourteen-year-old Brother Bruce, out for squirrels, fired at the sound, killed playful Otis...
...soil, because his blood community has lived close to it for generations; 3) perfectly poised between these poles of blood and soil, so that his actions are always determined by them, but appear to be instinctive and unreasoned, like the actions of a healthy animal. When Nazi theoreticians sound off about the German folk-soul, they mean to refer to this somewhat vague balance of blood, soil, race...
...maintain stoutly that the ideas of History, of Economics or any other subject cannot be considered sound unless they can be communicated in understandable terms," the Committee says...
...clouds hovered above the harbor like dark birds of prey. A few wild geese muttered with shrill voices among themselves; debating whether to stay or go. Later the rain came, slanting, with an edge. Inside the little cabin the drops knifed against the window with a hollow, drumming sound. In such a storm the bell sounded, there was the clatter of casting off, a seaman's voice rasped somewhere down by the shore...
...spring star," she said, knowing there was no such hing but liking the sound of it. And there suddenly, she ached with yearning...