Word: louder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capacity crowd of 52,168 jammed Tiger Stadium, chanting louder and louder as each Royals batter fell. A cadre of policeman emerged on the field at the start of the eighth inning and ringed the field...
Axelrod said he plans to make the broadcasts a habit, explaining that "tomorrow it will just be louder self, expression. By the end of the year it's a coup d'etat...
...unfortunately out of sight for most of the hundreds who gathered for her first open-to-the-public appearance: Ferraro and Mondale, speaking from the deeply sunken Halladie Plaza, could be seen only by people standing at the front of the crowd above. Nevertheless, the cheers were louder and longer during her short address than during her running mate...
...Dover grew surlier. By late last week the motorway snaking through the tranquil Kent countryside had burgeoned into a five-mile parking lot, replete with the bellow of air horns and the whiff of rotting fruit destined never to reach its market. The curses grew saltier, the threats louder. Finally, an ultimatum came from the madding crowd: open the port by 10 p.m. or else. An hour before the deadline, scared dock strikers relented and waved the vehicles by. Seven hours later, union officials and port operators emerged from a 16-hour bargaining session in London to announce a settlement...
...with no sense of cautionary exhortation by the author. Any such message-that tribalistic savagery is mankind's eternal, bone-bred evil, perhaps-would be excessive. Appelfeld simply and affectingly bears witness, and in the end, his sole, muted voice is more effective than a choir and louder than a roar...