Word: yell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grew moody, despondent; he exploded in anger fits. He was allowed a radio, could tune in any country he wanted. When he tuned in BBC news programs he held the volume at a whisper: in Germany the penalty for listening to BBC was death. As he listened he would yell "Lies! All Lies!" He boasted to British officials that he could tell them any thing they wanted to know about German policy, even about German policy formed while he was in Scotland. His mind, he said, worked precisely as Hitler's worked. Given any problems, any situations, he would...
...refreshing change from the normal officialese of war, Moscow added: "Having received a punch in the jaw, the crooks from Hitler's headquarters now put their tail between their legs and begin to yell that "allegedly it is not they, the Germans, who conduct the offensive, but the Soviet troops, and that consequently it was not their attempt to capture Kursk that failed in the first three days of heavy battles, but the attempt of our troops to break through the German defenses. ... It is too early to formulate a final conclusion...
...audiences have seen him jump about the podium like a college cheerleader, stand on one foot, kick up his heels, shake his fists, lunge with his arms, yell at the brass, lose his baton, nearly lose his balance. They have watched this catalogue of gestures bring from the orchestra a beautifully controlled flow of pliant, clearly articulated symphonic sound. No conductor has a more eloquent sign language for encouraging, warning, cajoling or just plain frightening orchestra musicians into giving him what he wants. Sir Thomas, unlike most maestros, seldom bothers to beat time-he seems able to infect musicians with...
...Widener, women messengers now carry the books in from the stacks to the circulation desk. A husky, masculine voice, however, is still needed to yell "closing," at 9:50 o'clock. In the University printing shops, feminines are employed as press feeders and printing plant apprentices...
...phone call for a girl in a Radcliffe dorm, the maid downstairs rings a buzzer in that girl's room, sending her to the phone on her own floor. But usually they don't trust the buzzer, and almost anyone is apt to rush to the phone. They yell "Oh hell!" when you ask for someone else. If men don't call and there's not too much work to be done the ladies often drop outside for a coke and tomato and lettuce, or even (oh, not often!) a little farther for a daiquiri. And other week nights...