Word: yell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coordination of air and ground operations is highly important in battle, and nothing helps it more than good relations between the air and ground commanders. But it is the unalterable nature of the infantry general to get all the close air support he can lay his hands on, then yell for more. Somewhere in the process of wholehearted cooperation, the air commander may find himself being seduced into giving extra ground support at the expense of sound tactical air doctrine. Then an enemy bridge stands unmolested, while the plane that ought to be bombing it is miles away, working...
...Marquis de Sade very happy. Just put the victim's leg on the leg rest, put the pressure inductor on his shin bone and pump up the pressure until it hurts. That indicates the threshold at which pain begins (and the victim-however Spartan-is supposed to yell). The threshold varies from 500 (for the Gummidge type) to 2,700 grams, depending on the person's nervous system...
...C.I.O. were to announce that it would admit no reporters to its conventions unless they belonged to its American Newspaper Guild, the U.S. press would unquestionably set up a yell that could be heard in the farthest recesses of the New York Times library. The British press was audible last week, for an equivalent reason. Beginning its 76th convention at Blackpool, Lancashire, the British Trades Union Congress announced that it would admit to its press tables only reporters holding membership in the National Union of Journalists. Object: to high-pressure more newsmen into militant N.U.J. (A smaller, rival union...
...Robert Reid was just outside Notre Dame when the shooting started. He recorded the scene in a memorable broadcast. Cried Radioman Reid: ". . . The General is being presented to the people. He is being received. . . ." There was noise of shots, shouts, screams, a loud yell: "They have opened fire." Then silence. Reid had been caught in a rush of Parisians. His microphone was temporarily disconnected. He went on: "That was one of the most dramatic scenes I have ever seen. . . . Firing started all over the place. . . . General de Gaulle was trying to control the crowds rushing into the cathedral. He walked...
...meet a fine group of professors. But we'll put you wise to them You'll meet Merriam in Fuel and Management. His bark is worse than his bite. As long as your old man uses Standard Oil, you're in. Then there is Arthur Hanson. He'll yell and yell and yell, and he'll tell you a tall one about a Peanut Wagon. Well, listen to him, because you'll soon find that you really are learning a lot of accounting. All you have to do is to get a Dist. in his course is use "plain common...