Word: croaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came the wondrous news. A rescuer at the 13,000-ft. level heard a faint call from the broken end of a compressed-air pipe sticking from the rubble. He yelled back, heard an answering croak: "There are twelve of us in here. Come and get us.'' That they did. Swiftly, yet with infinite care, the rescuers dug toward the entombed men, both sides shouting happy obscenities. A burr-tongued Scotsman yelled through the pipe, got the reply: "Take the marbles out of your mouth and talk English." The rescue team shoved a copper tube through the steel...
...waving back and forth. They all trumpeted the same theme: "Jimmy, Don't Leave Us"; "Jimmy, We Need You!" For two minutes James Caesar Petrillo, 66, blew his nose into the first of two handkerchiefs, mopped his eyes with the other. Finally, the words came in a convulsive croak: "Little Caesar is bowing out. Goodbye, Little Caesar...
...rousing success, and in the printed version Young got out, it won an accolade from T.S. Eliot: "A most delightful piece of work. I enjoyed it immensely." A bit of the original Greek retained in Young's Puddocks as well as Murray's Frogs-the croak of the frog chorus that mocks Dionysus as Charon ferries him across the Styx...
...Sound. Philosophizes Chicago Deejay Marty Faye on rock 'n' roll: "The kids have accepted this twanging guitar, this nasal, unintelligible sound, this irritating sameness of lyrics, this lamentable croak. They've picked a sound all their own, apart from anything the adults like. Rock 'n' roll is still as strong as ever, and we'll have to live with it until the kids find a new sound...
...Lumet's direction, the play combined compassion and extraordinary visual impact in scenes in which the mute father and mother flung their feelings into sign language-taught to the actors by a specialist-and the brother (well-played by Richard Shepard) vented his own anxieties with the laborious croak and articulating grimaces of a man who has never heard his own voice. In the girl's part, Piper Laurie showed again, as she did in an uneven Playhouse 90 show last season, that Hollywood has wasted a first-rate actress as a B-picture harem houri. The Deaf...