Word: blaring
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...exactly 1:03 p.m. yesterday, a funky jam began to blare in front of the John Harvard statue in the Yard. Within 10 seconds a crowd of at least 40 was circling a cluster of rainbow chairs, dancing freely in an enormous game of musical chairs...
...victory was bittersweet. As the clock ticked down the seconds, sounding off a triumphant blare signaling a Crimson victory, it also marked what may be the end of several lacrosse careers...
...salary. "We're not eating out as much," he says. "We're cutting back on holidays." Even so, he has decided not to pull his two children out of their international schools, and he still frequents the American Club sports bar, where the TV screens hanging from the ceiling blare more CNBC financial news than football or tennis. Most evenings, the crowd of bankers and businessmen groan and gulp their drinks as they watch markets plummet...
...could do for the rest of my life—open a dress shop for lasses in mourning—and call it, what, The Gloomy Loom of Doom?“And that’s why my embroidered pigs are so rotten!” I heard blare from behind me.I froze at her voice! Where could I hide? What was even huge enough to hide me? A statue? A cross? An ironclad? There was nothing anywhere. A church foyer had never been so ruthless!Then I saw him. Next to the Easter egg crucifix stood Marshall Pellet...
...Though pure fiction, the story of Old Zhao is circulating widely on the Chinese Internet these days, with plenty of rueful comments trailing in its wake. It reflects a sour undercurrent running beneath the blare of Olympic triumphalism that reached a crescendo in the days before the Aug. 8 opening ceremony. With the capital socked in for days by a gray haze, there was a literal and metaphorical pall hanging over what Beijing has long hoped would be a moment of glory marking the country's re-emergence, after years of darkness and irrelevance, as a world power...