Word: sounded
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...charges to order promptly at noon in the Ways & Means Committee room. The clerk droned through the roll in a rising crescendo of bedlam and backslapping. The House knew, even though the Senate might not admit it, that what remains of the 81st Congress would be full of sound & fury, signifying nothing. The principal task of the lame-duck session, triumphant Bob Taft had said, was to "adjourn...
...with big jacks scrambled toward the cars; doctors and nurses crept and crawled up ladders and into the wreckage, hypodermic needles in hand. Welders began to create their blinding cascades of sparks while firemen sprayed water past them to keep trapped humans from, burning. A jostling crowd gathered, a sound truck began rasping out commands...
Night Attack. Up in the citadel the distant sound of mortar fire awakes the garrison commander. He snaps on a flashlight, hurriedly cranks the field telephone. But the duty officer can only guess from the direction of the noise that the attack is at Tanmai, a small fort west of Moncay manned by about 40 Vietnamese soldiers. Tanmai has no radio or telephone...
...speakers will discuss the present programs of disaster relief, and outline alternatives designed to prevent disaster in time of war and assure sound growth of out metropolitan areas...
...only "two weeks ago" with a grandiose plan for the Yale weekend. We spent long hours in the first weeks of school carefully working out a plan that would be fair and agreeable to all. We spent considerable time and effort in arriving at what we think is a sound and equitable policy...