Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fundamental concept nonetheless is that the poor can effectively help themselves only by mobilizing their potential political strength. In practice, this theory has stirred the loudest and most lasting controversy of the entire poverty program. City governments, bitterly resentful of any encroachment on their own powers, object that the poor are hardly qualified to dispense millions in anti-poverty funds. "Asking the poor how to win the war on poverty," cracked Columnist Art Buchwald, "is like asking the Japs how to win World...
While Mayor Collins and Gov. John A. Volpe received big ovations, the longest and loudest cheers went to U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy...
...pity the people who elected John Lindsay. I remember no other politician who so quickly made such an ass of himself. If the people who protested the loudest about the strike had had relatives in the fight for higher wages, would they be so against the strike? Good for Michael Quill and his cause...
Both choral groups sounded beautiful in this piece. The sopranos, especially, have an impressive, lyrical sound. Even the loudest sections were done musically, sounding solid and intense rather than percussive. And the concluding pianissimo section was sung, breathtakingly well. Unfortunately, the effect was ruined by an awful sound at the very end that turned out to be a sustained violin "harmonic" (a very high note in which the string, instead of being pressed down, is merely touched so that it vibrates in sections). It didn't work. The sound was squeaky, scratchy, and of questionable tonality--so bad that...
...student half of the crowd saved its loudest applause for Carl Oglesby, the bearded, 30-year-old president of the Students for a Democratic Society. He was the only student among the speakers...