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Word: bleats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Staff's hush-hush memoranda, many of which Shirer quotes practically in full. It reaches a climax in Hitler's absurd will, and is still, says Shirer, an article of faith today. Though expressed repeatedly and in a dozen ways, it adds up to one bleat: we was robbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Locker-Room Visit | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...exacting administrator. He had performed miracles of political acrobatics. But New Yorkers had grown to think of him not so much as a political force but as a manifestation of sound and movement-shrill, vehement, energetic and cacophonous, as oddly comforting as the roar of the subway and the bleat of taxi horns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Little Flower | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...inclined to believe that this is the worst of the lot. He loves poetry-obviously-yet all he can do is to make it sound ridiculous. 'Listen to this, boys ' he says. 'Isn't it beautiful?' And he proceeds to quack or mouth or bleat out something which is a travesty of the beauty which has truly moved him. ... He is addicted to giving classes poems to learn by heart . . . I was put off Milton for years by a fool who made me learn the sonnet On His Blindness when I was eleven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Dislike Poetry | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...enough to make World Businessman Clayton give up in despair. Wool-growing is not a vital U.S. industry. It is a small, uneconomic business which assays at less than 1/1000 of the national income. But it has powerful friends-Congressmen and Senators from 23 wool-growing states, who can bleat as loudly as storm-whipped rams while trading support of bills to protect Southern peanut-growers for bills to protect Western sheep-raisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...terms of sobriety, thrift and an 18-hour day. The dowdy "Post Old Style" type was long since gone; clean-cut Bodoni dressed the pages. Up front the hors d'oeuvres included a chatty letters column, with a grateful note from Reader Robert A. Taft, a bitter bleat from a customer who said the magazine stank. (Right, said the editor; it was that new black ink. Printed fine, smelled bad. The Post wouldn't offend again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shiny New Post | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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