Word: croak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harriman-Kefauver forces, beaten again, decided they needed an adjournment to rally their strength and prevent a ballot that night. Senator Paul Douglas, like a man possessed, shouted, "Mr. Chairman! Mr. Chairman!" In a hoarse, weird croak, he moved adjournment. When it looked as if Chairman Rayburn might let the convention dispose of the matter by voice vote, Douglas, his face contorted in frenzy, shouted. "Roll call! Roll call!" The roll was called, and the convention decided to stay in session...
...Cackle & Croak. With his affectionate patience, Dr. Lorenz has become familiar with the passions of that monogamous little fish, the cichlid. He knows the wild ecstasies of the Siamese fighting fish and the stickleback. He can spell out the intricate class consciousness of jackdaw society, for he has seen a low-ranking female mate with a high-ranking male and assume his place in the social order...
...tales romantics croak...
...Cuttlefish. He set to work to demonstrate that the G.O.P., "the party of negative inaction [which] is always against things," had been saying the same thing in different words ever since 1933. "Out of the great progress of this country . . . [they] have learned nothing ... all they do is croak, 'socialism...
...twice before. In talking of the Government's most convincing witness-Newsman George Wilson, who charged that he had seen Bridges at a Communist meeting in San Francisco-the longshore leader cried: "[They were] pointing a gun at him. He looked like a guy who was about to croak because he was telling a lie and it might land me in jail...