Word: croaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holiday cheer failed to drown out one small croak. Employment (exclusive of farm labor) in November, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was off 170,000 from October. It was the first time in seven years that such employment had dropped during the usually booming pre-Christmas season. (At 45,700,000, U.S. non-farm employment was still 800,000 above a year...
...morning this week the people of Melsungen, an old walled town in Hesse only 22 miles from the Soviet zone's border, were awakened by the croak of the town criers. "Come to the Schlosshof," their voices called through the narrow streets. "Come to the Schlosshof and give aid to our beleaguered countrymen...
...Dallas, station KLIF hired a parrot (with an adenoidal Portuguese accent), whose transcribed croak announced the station's call letters between programs...
...biggest worry to a series commentator is the reaction of the fans away from the ballpark. "They don't know the park and can't visualize exactly what's happening," says Corum, in his gin-croak voice. "Like last year, when the ball got away from the outfielders and was lost in the shrubs. I said: 'This is like town lot baseball; they've even lost the ball in the weeds.' And then I annoyed 'em when I told again what lousy baseball they were playing. I think I said...
Four days after Pearl Harbor, when the bill authorizing the President to send troops overseas was up for debate, he pushed himself feebly to his feet on the Senate floor to croak: "I object." Since that day, Hi Johnson, tired, sick and sore, had spent more of his time in his office or in hospitals, dreaming of the Presidency he never won. This week, as it must to all men, Death came in the 79th year to the California dissenter, one of the great independents of U.S. politics...