Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varsity was a different team after the dismal opening, scoring with a finesse that kept the spirited crowd in an uproar. Bill Beckett's goal, which opened the Harvard scoring at 5:25, drew some of the loudest cheers. Taking a face-off pass from Jim Dwinell 30 feet in front of van Gerbig, Beckett carefully sighted on the few inches of net visible between the goalie and the left post, then hit his mark...
...shake-for the tower was designed to give with the stress of wind and wave. The men also learned to put up with the constant, ear-banging racket of water slapping against resounding steel plate, the whine of generators, the mournful complaint of one of the largest and loudest foghorns in the world. But the food was good, and there was time for recreation. Men fished for cod, killed time in the tower's hobby shops, and played pool (although the roll of the deck turned the game into something unrecognizable by landlubbering sharks...
What concerns blunt, balding Dr. Knudsen-and many another U.S. scientist-is that the U.S., already perhaps the loudest nation in the world, is growing still noisier. Ever more numerous jet planes scream overhead, unmuffled trucks roar through city streets, sports cars whine along once placid suburban roads, and missile-age workers are being exposed to the highest and most dangerous noise levels in history. "Noise," says Physicist Knudsen, "is the bane of our existence...
...Ignoring the clamor, De Gaulle climbed from his car, waved cordially, and entered the town hall to address local dignitaries. When he emerged, the square reverberated with caterwauling shouts and whistles. De Gaulle ambled in his camel gait straight into the crowd at the point where the shouting was loudest. Startled Europeans fell back. Some were so nonplused that they paused in mid-scream to shake his hand...
Pleas for Patrice. In Manhattan's U.N. headquarters, the plight of Songolo bothered almost no one. The loudest laments were for Patrice Lumumba, who, it was rumored, had been mistreated in Colonel Mobutu's army jail, though doctors reported he was only somewhat bruised from the Congolese arrest techniques, which prescribe cuffing and a few kicks in the behind. Russia's Delegate Valerian Zorin introduced a new motion in the Security Council, demanding Lumumba's immediate release from jail and reinstallation as Premier. Moreover, said Zorin, the U.N. should get out of the Congo...