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Word: chirped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...down, the 15-ton Catalina went into a violent left turn, headed for the sea. In the dizzy spiral dive the aileron carried away, took part of the tip of the wing with it. Then the left aileron ripped off. An operator in the United Kingdom heard the frenetic chirp from the Catalina's radio: "Both ailerons gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Builder of Big Ships | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...Professor Packard explains, knows what his own voice sounds like, since it comes to him through the bones of his head. Many a Yardling will find to his chagrin that his voice is not the deep, masculine thing he thinks it is, but more like the chirp of some flutey little bird in one of the Yard elms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '45 Faces Voice Tests In Holden | 9/23/1941 | See Source »

...Friedelind. She was dandled on Herr Hitler's knee while rumor that he was going to marry her mother rose but finally ebbed. When about the age of a U. S. debutante, Friedelind, by her own account, used to lunch now & then with the Führer and chirp all sorts of criticisms of Nazi doings, which sometimes put him in a rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wagnerian Issue | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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