Word: louder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lack of understanding of domestic and world problems, and his extremist past statements, do indeed raise the specter of war and domestic divisions. Says a close presidential aide: "He is so frustrated that no one else is saying these things that he feels he has to shout all the louder...
...louder Carter has shouted, the more his staff has worried about his assaults on Reagan boomeranging. At an urgent strategy session in the Watergate apartment of Campaign Chairman Robert Strauss, five top aides agreed that Carter must tone down his rhetoric. How to persuade him was the problem. Charlie Kirbo, the President's confidant from Atlanta, was deputized to put the matter to Carter as forcefully as possible...
...fireworks were louder and more spectacular, the parade longer and the smiles larger than ever before in Cambridge as the city celebrated its 350th birthday this weekend...
...such problems are not widely familiar, it is only because they have long been drowned out by the louder outcry of the cities over kindred troubles. Small Town, U.S.A., is in fact likely to be heard from more and more in coming years. In the past decade, through such channels as the National Association of Towns and Townships and the Congressional Rural Caucus, small towns have begun voicing a more concerted plea for federal assistance. By last December they had prodded the White House, long obsessed with city problems, into issuing for the first time a formal policy on small...
...fraction had risen from 20 per cent to 45 per cent of the population. Miami had changed from a city with a charming Latin quarter to a Latin city. In the early '70s English-speaking Miamians began to grumble about losing control of "their" city. Today they say it louder. To an Anglo the Spanish language seems to be everywhere, far more prevalent thatn English. Everyone complains about receiving wrong-number telephone calls from "Latins" (a favorite euphemism for Cubans). In fact, one of the less obnoxious ethnic slurs for a Cuban is "oye," the command form of the Spanish...