`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.

Of the Maritime provinces, only Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were initially party to the BNA Act, Prince Edward Island's reluctance, combined with a booming agricultural and fishing export economy having led to that colony opting not to sign on.

By 1942, with the war industries booming and the draft in operation, need declined and Congress voted to close the program.

By 2002 the Falklands ' economy was booming, with income from tourism and the sale of squid fishing licences as well as from indigenous fishing companies with locally registered boats.

The opportunities offered by the booming Hollywood film industry and, later, the threat of growing Nazi power led to the emigration of many important film artists working in Germany who had either been directly involved in the Expressionist movement or studied with its practitioners.

The Republic of Cyprus is a constitutional democracy which has reached great levels of prosperity, with a booming economy and good infrastructures, part of the United Nations, European Union and several others organizations by whom it is recognized as the sole legitimate government of the whole island.

Lately, with the increase of alumina demand thanks to booming China, there is a renew interest in Guinea riches.

With a booming economy short of unskilled workers, especially after the Berlin Wall cut off the steady flow of East Germans, the FRG negotiated migration agreements with Italy ( 1955 ), Spain ( 1960 ), Greece ( 1960 ), and Turkey ( 1961 ) that brought in hundreds of thousands of temporary guest workers, called Gastarbeiter.

A booming public sector, with its enhanced ability to import, was enough to keep the economy showing growth, based on private consumption and government spending.

Historians agree that Hoover's national reputation and the booming economy, combined with deep splits in the Democratic Party over religion and prohibition, guaranteed his landslide victory with 58 % of the vote.

Business with booming Russia and China, as well as neighboring Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) nations have helped to propel this amazing growth.

His production work for those and many other artists generally boasted a bright, booming, and robust sound that — along with his ear for a catchy sample — helped move street-level hip-hop's sonic blueprint into more accessible territory.

With business at Cold Chillin ' booming, Marl put out the first full-length release under his own name in 1988 ( he'd previously recorded the single " DJ Cuttin '" in 1985 with the alias NYC Cutter ).

With efforts at improved audio fidelity, the big record companies succeeded in keeping business booming through the end of the decade, but the record sales plummeted during the Great Depression, with many companies merging or going out of business.

Roosevelt agreed with Burroughs ' criticisms, and published several essays of his own denouncing the booming genre of " naturalistic " animal stories as " yellow journalism of the woods ".

" A report by Michael Stoler in The New York Sun described a " phoenix-like resurrection " of the area, with residential, commercial, retail and hotels booming in the " third largest business district in the country.

In the end, the Republicans were identified with the booming economy of the 1920s, whereas Smith, a Roman Catholic, suffered politically from Anti-Catholic prejudice, his anti-prohibitionist stance, and the legacy of corruption of Tammany Hall, with which he was associated.

At the same time, they increased the number of models imported from Mitsubishi: first came a smaller Colt ( based on Mitsubishi's Mitsubishi Lancer line ), then a revival of the Challenger ( though with nothing more than a four-cylinder under the hood, rather than the booming V8s of yore ).

Cage diving and swimming with sharks is a focus for a booming tourist industry due to its popularity.

It started with its booming glove industry in the 18th and 19th centuries, continued with the development of a strong hydropower industry in the late 19th-early 20th centuries and ended with its post-World War II economic boom symbolized by the holding of the X Olympic Winter Games in 1968.

As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.

Meredith's voice was always deep, with rough bass notes in it ; ;

`` I loused it '', Rob said, with a savage note in his voice.

Joviality suffused Feathertop Ernie Cargill's voice as he reached behind him, pulling out a battered carpet bag, with leather handles.

His first inaugural address speaks of `` my country whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love ''.

The voice is light in timbre, with a rough edge that corresponds to his visage.

And I select this sentence as its pertinent summation: `` in essence the drama of his ( Eisenhower's ) Presidency can be described as the ordeal of a nation turned conservative and struggling -- thus far with but limited and precarious success -- to give effective voice and force to that conservatism ''.

Stranger, Uncle Randolph began riding home nights with a jug strapped to his saddle, drunkenly singing `` Old Dan Tucker '' at the top of his voice.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

`` Your voice is delightful '', he approved with a warm smile.

The soldier's voice was muffled again, stricken with chagrin.

Her voice shook with feeling, and he thought it lovely.

Shakespeare speaking with `` the indescribable gusto of the Elizabethan voice '' -- ; ;

Miss Pulova has a voice that Maria Callas once described as `` like chipping teeth with a screw driver '', and her round, opalescent face becomes fascinatingly reflective of the emotions demanded by the role of Rosalie.

Earlier, this woman had been so filled with a chaotic variety of introjects that at times, when she was in her room alone, it would sound to a passerby as though there were several different persons in the room, as she would vocalize in various kinds of voice.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

Chandler had expected a tough old trooper with a gravel voice.

Jones came toward them fast, now, along the southern toe of the Reef, and the dogs could be heard plainly, Old John with his Grand Canyon voice outstanding above the others.

He said in a low voice, `` I've got a date with a lady, Mister.

Tom Brannon had caught up with the outfit shortly after the Maguires joined it, which had been at midday.

He'd mounted up immediately and raced with a revolver ready toward the spot from which he'd estimated the shot had come.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

He slammed into the wall, bounced back, and caught Curt with a roundhouse right which sent him spinning.

Curt caught him flush on the nose with a blow which started at the floor.

Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.

Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.

I had a one-room studio which overlooked an ancient courtyard filled with flowers and plants, blooming everlastingly in the southern sun.

The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.

She had touched her face, truly a noble and pure face, only with a lip salve which made her lips glisten but no redder than usual.

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

He came within an ace of being riddled with bullets during his long fight with the Doolin gang which terrorized Oklahoma in the 1890's.

That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.

The youth with the snake had a natural pride and joy of life which appealed to the woman.

The drummer flogged the gourd with frantic intensity as the dancers began the calinda, a sensual gyration which had long been a favorite of voodoo practitioners and their disciples in the Louisiana slave compounds.

The woman eyed the youth with the avidity a coin collector might display toward a rare doubloon which is not yet in his collection.

So Dandy Brandon trustingly entered the house with Delphine Lalaurie and trudged up the rear steps to the attic room which was to be his new home.

I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White House, in offices of key scientists across the country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as `` Sherwood Forest ''.

They include the Navy's Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Virginia, which is in contact with the Polaris subs ; ;

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.