Word: creaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walked beside of Grandpa a-holdin to his hand. Many sang songs as we walked down the mountain, a mountain so steep that it made the knees creak to hold us back...
Capricornia begins at the end of the 19th Century, when the Northwest's population was mostly crocodiles, devil crabs, creak-winged jabirus and colored aborigines. Pioneers from South Australia pushed up into a half million square miles drenched to swamp by the wet season, parched to desert by the dry. They were there to stay. When the defeated Larrapunas persisted in guerrilla tactics, the settlers gave them gifts of flour spiced with arsenic...
...remembered the somewhat terrifying sound of the Memorial Chapel bell just outside his window on the first morning, and then the comfortingly regular quarter-hours ringing out from Saint Paul's, the clatter of plates mingling with the rumble of voices in the Union, and the regular splash-swish-creak of his oars in sculling...
...wealthy backers or subsidies. Its goal has been low-priced opera for mass audiences. In its 30 seasons it has played 9,000 times to 19,000,000 people; and except for its first year, when it lost $700, it has made money. Though its performances some-times creak, and its singing is as uneven as a stockmarket graph, it has kept a wide public happy...
...hard who thinks that the final showdown will be ships of the line against ships of the line, aircraft being equal." The burden of the Navy's new 150,000 tons will put a terrific strain on the present shipbuilding program. But it is expected to creak through. Even though the Navy will get priority over merchant shipping, the U.S. Maritime Commission's Admiral Jerry Land still intends to maintain his ship-a-day schedule...