Word: louder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troublesome teen-ager or even a loner. Indeed, in the seventh and ninth grades he was elected president of his home room, and as an eighth-grader managed the basketball team. John Hinckley was no aloof oddball then. Says his junior-high friend Kirk Dooley: "No one rooted louder than Hinckley for the Highland Park Red Raiders...
...nearly virginal Harlequin romances, passion never goes above a whisper: "She gasped with helplessness and fright and another subtler emotion that she could not understand." Masters and Johnson could furnish her with a working hypothesis, but even the more oestrous Richard Gallen Books line purrs only a little louder: "Sweet spasms of oneness curled within her." All this heavy breathing is as calculated as a publisher's earnings statement; according to industry surveys, readers want the sex wrapped in euphemisms and the future tied in pink ribbons...
...orphanage, who, given a chance to escape, chose to accompany his little charges to the gas chambers. The Holocaust Library also tells more heartening tales. Their Brothers' Keepers by Philip Friedman (232 pages; $4.95, paperback) celebrates the Christians who helped thousands of Jews escape because their consciences clamored louder than jackboots and guttural orders...
...Basque fighting song. It took security guards ten minutes to subdue the demonstrators in an unseemly scene that was carried over national television. Clearly prepared for the outbreak, a composed Juan Carlos turned it to advantage. At one point he smiled mischievously, goading the protesters to sing louder. Then, with order restored, he took command with an eloquent gesture of national reconciliation. "Faced with those who practice intolerance of free expression, I reaffirm my faith in democracy and confidence in the Basque people," he told the cheering audience, and went on to legitimize nonviolent Basque nationalism...
Prayer breakfasts and other public moments of celestial meditation are not bad in themselves, it is just that they seem to grow more numerous, louder and longer with every Administration. It is as if each new President must try to establish a better relationship with God than his predecessor did. An old and wry hand in Washington, who has served five Presidents, claims that there is a direct relationship between how much a President prays in public and how devious he is backstage...