Word: creakings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Author Kenneth Fearing has tried to clamp a humanist allegory on a science-fiction frame. His real villain, the Industrial Revolution, is 200 years old, and his moral (Destroy the machine before the machine destroys you) has an antique creak. The author of that high-voltage thriller, The Big Clock, Fearing seems to have forgotten for the moment what time...
...remember when any general manager of the Met had won so jovial an accolade, finally gave up. After only nine weeks of his first season, Rudolf Bing looked like the best thing that had happened to the Met in many a day. Nobody expected Bing to take all the creaks out of the old place overnight, but he had already accomplished the near miracle of persuading his singers, his board of directors and his audiences that the Met was not doomed to creak forever along ways established back in the gaslight...
Westminster Abbey is a ghostly place by night. Timbers creak and pigeons and sparrows make fluttering noises high in the clerestory as the watchman makes his rounds...