Word: bleat
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...have no complaint with Mr. Meletakos for wanting news of Greece, but I am sick of hearing "foreigners," residing in this "Land of the Free," "bleat" about being a Royalist, and "blah, blah," about "fighting for the Royalist Flag any old time...
When further details trickled in it was learned the Sandino forces had seized George B. Marshall of Manhattan, an assistant superintendent of one of the Fletcher mines and were threatening to shoot him, "as an example to these Yankee Pirates." At Washington the Navy Department & Marine Corps could only bleat that for the past six weeks their scout planes have not been able to so much as ascertain the whereabouts of shrewd Guerilla Augusto Calderon Sandino...
Haply she'd hark to our plaintive bleat...
...SHEEP RUN?Thames Wil- liamson?Small, Maynard ($2.50). "Ba-a-a-a-a" bleat 2,000 "woollies" as they start forward harried by the sheep-dog at their flanks. A sheepherder, strong in suffering hardship, powerful in emotion, childish in mind, is alone for a whole summer, far in the California mountains with his sheep. He grows wilderness-mad. His only civilized emotion is a strange attachment to his herd. All summer long he makes only three acquaintances?a cougar, a prospector and the prospector's daughter. Successively, in unreasoning passion, he kills the first two and takes the last...
Picture a schoolroom full of seated children, all tense, eyes forward, on the alert. Teacher sits tensely too, watching them breathlessly. Suddenly Teacher cries a sharp command. The children spring to their feet, jump up and down, leap on their chairs and desktops, run, scream, yell, pull hair, bleat, catcall, caterwaul, whistle, shout, gibber, bang fists, stamp feet, kick out, fall down, scramble around. Seeing the pandemonium slacken, Teacher joins the spectacle, waves arms, shouts, yells, halloos, squeaks, bellows...