Word: sound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They saved their strength by yielding the floor to a pair of helpful Republicans who wanted to sound off on pressing irrelevancies. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges wanted to deplore the wastefulness of such Government publications as Eliminating Bats from Buildings, Fleas of North America, etc. Senator Bridges talked almost three hours...
...Emory was unmoved. Into the telephone, he said: "I'm sorry, Mother, for what I'm about to do. Please forgive me." Over the wire leading into the Manhattan apartment she had never seen, Mrs. Thomas heard her daughter scream, and the scream broken by the sharp sound of shouts and shots. In Hollywood, Mrs. Thomas fainted. When she came to, she hurriedly telephoned for help from the New York police...
...minutes later, they found Emory Holt's body sprawled over a chair, a 9-mm. Luger automatic still gripped in his hand. His wife's body was stretched out on the sofa. Beside her sat the body of the man who had been her lover. The only sound came from the telephone. Still off its hook, it buzzed angrily and insistently...
When the newspapers picked up his innocent merriment last week and made it sound too straight-faced to suit him, President Armitage beat a hasty retreat. "I'm not peddling the institution," he insisted. "We're just a nice little school getting along nicely." Nobody had come through with a million, he added, but one friend of South Jersey (who remained anonymous) had pledged...
...surgeon readers of Surgery got a sound wigging in the current issue from one of their own and from a pair of practitioners in other fields. Dr. Allen Oldfather Whipple, clinical director of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, told them how not to act in the operating room-with specifications. Then they got another lecture from Manhattan Internist Mack Lipkin and Psychiatrist Edward Joseph, who complained that too many surgeons do not know how to handle surgery patients, anyhow...