Word: sounded
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...named Donald Birdzell was reacting like a bear in a zoo to the rigors of boredom and the demands of duty. He paced. Then he stood before the Blair House steps, got his weight back on his heels and stared solemnly toward the street. As he did so a sound-a faint, metallic click-disturbed him. He turned his head...
...This is an Office of Civilian Defense sound truck," he cried into the mike. "Unidentified airplanes approaching New York City. All residents black out. Prepare for atomic attack!" Then he turned up the amplifier volume, producing a sirenlike screaming sound. The windows of the Gordons' third-floor apartment-like those of most of the apartments around it-were open. The results of his announcement on the teeming Bronx exceeded Stanley's fondest expectations...
...September 1945, nearly every billboard and wall space in the city was plastered with effective, brightly colored posters extolling the military and civil virtues of the Soviet Union. In every section of the city (pop. 300,000), Russian-trained Korean agitators hammered home the same ideas from soapboxes and sound trucks. Within a few days Pyongyang's Peony Point Park had been named Molotov Park, the Taedong River had become the Lenin River, and Bell Road, the city's main thoroughfare, had been renamed Stalin Street...
...candidate Coolidge declined the same invitation. In the face of the third declination by Mr. Coolidge to appear at Harvard, the best that the HYRC could concoct to cover their failure was a patently ridiculous invitation that their candidate allegedly tended to the Governor to debate aboard the Coolidge sound-ruck as it was passing through Harvard Square. The Governor's campaign managers considered this stunt "insulting," but reitorated the Governor's willingness to meet Mr. Coolidge in orderly debate at the University. Mr. Coolidge's managers continued to decline...
...Press was still on weak foundations financially. Harold Murdock, father of Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Higginson Professor of English Literature, was brought in to put the Press on a sound financial basis...