Word: louder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about 3 o'clock, Pilot Ed Laparle, 57, checked on the radio with Indianapolis Control Center, signed off with an all's well. Fifteen minutes later, a farmer in the Ohio River town of Tell City, Ind. heard "popping sounds, like shotgun shells or a little louder." Looking up, he saw the Electra break in two pieces, the right wing looping off in one direction, the rest of the plane plunging toward a soybean field. As the plane smashed into the ground, another explosion ripped it apart, flinging debris and pieces of bodies for hundreds of yards...
...secluded American Academy. In a setting that might have inspired Horace, the yellow-walled palazzo sits serenely atop the Janiculum hill, Rome's highest, where the eye is on a level with St. Peter's dome, and a languid fountain dripping in the courtyard is louder than the city's raucous Vespas. If the place is out of this world, the effect jolts men to hard, realistic work. "I know I'll never get another chance like this in my life," says one sweaty sculptor. Adds a painter: "For me, coming here was like a kick...
...divided by prejudice-by the sniffiness and anti-Catholicism in an English-speaking family, by the rigidity and fear of worldly ways in a French-speaking one. For a while the play dribbled along in terms of trivial snags and snubs and slurs; then Playwright Joudry took to sounding louder and darker chords: tempers boiled over, a violin-playing hand was broken, the young girl in one house had a troubled love affair, a small boy was drowned...
...farmers account for only 15% of the vote, and many of them are Republicans. But some Republicans will doubtless cross over to vote for Humphrey, a neighborly sort who for years treated himself as Wisconsin's "third Senator," and argued the farmers' case for high price supports louder than their own two Senators. Straw polls show farmers favoring Humphrey 46% to Kennedy's 29%, with 25% undecided...