Word: creaking
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...live in barracks--wooden structures put up temporarily after the war and never replaced. The science building is very fine, but the old structure where most of the classes are held and where most administration offices are located is horrible. An offensive odor pervades the place and the stairs creak menacingly. The theatre is miniscule and looks to be falling apart. By far the finest looking building is rarely used. The magnificent Zabriskie Estate manor house, "Blithewood," overlooking the Hudson, is used occasionally for conferences and dances, but stands idle most of the time...
...Creaking Economies. What was "fresh" was not the point of view but the U.S.'s acceptance of it. For the four years of NATO's muscle-stretching, budget-straining effort to throw up a defense against Soviet might, the allies' diplomatic and military experts worked on the "crash" theory of buildup-the policy of amassing the greatest possible strength in the shortest possible time, on the assumption that the year of crisis with Russia, "the year of maximum exposure," was near at hand. (In 1948 the hypothetical year of crisis...
...just a funny man. But he also discussed the dry issues of the party platforms, sometimes dryly; and he also frequently spoke with eloquence rarely heard in a political campaign: "We have become guardians of a civilization built in pain, in anguish and in heroic hope ... If we creak, the world will groan. If we slip, the world will fall. But if we use our right of initiative and of decision without bombast or bluster, if we use it with clear heads and steady nerves, we shall rise in strength and grow in majesty and the world will rise...
...thing saddens Windjammer Villiers about today's Indian Ocean. Across its 4,600-mile face from Cape Town to Bombay, no bona fide sailing ship scuds before the trade winds. Without "the creak of well-seasoned timbers, the slow gurgle of water at the bows, the gentle hum of the warm wind in the taut rigging," the "flying-fish ocean" is still a pretty good place, he feels, but not as good as it used...
...qualms about turning their backs on states' rights when they were voting for New Deal farm and spending policies in the '30s. They have had few such qualms since. The cry of states' rights is now what it was in Calhoun's day: a creak in the machinery of intraparty compromise between majorities and minorities...