Word: hissing
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...Angriff, personal organ of ecstatic Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Paul Josef Goebbels. last week found a new villain to hiss at-the stolid, pedantic Press of Switzerland. ''The Swiss newspapers," roared Der Angriff, "are read only by those in Germany who have already emigrated in spirit and would emigrate in the flesh for good business. And if occasionally they do report something that is correct, that something is known to the competent political authorities much earlier. If it is something unpleasant, that also does not excite us. No states and no peoples consist of cherubs and seraphs...
...colony. The lizards claw out great caves in the mountains, roam down to prey on deer, boar and smaller animals. They walk with bodies well off the ground, can run fast, swim, stand on their hind legs like dinosaurs. They are keen-eyed, keen-eared, highly emotional. Angered, they hiss like boilers. Frightened, they vomit...
...protest than local unemployed. Some of its members were wearing red arm bands. They stopped a coal truck and converted its load from fuel to missiles. Crash, crash, tinkle, tinkle went the first floor windows of the City Hall. Flop went a policeman felled by a lump of coal. Hiss, hiss, hiss went tear gas bombs as the police replied. When the load of coal became exhausted, sticks, stones and bottles took their place. The police used clubs...
After studying the hiss for a year, Researcher Jansky determined that it was the effect of a 14.6-metre wave at a frequency of about 20 million cycles a second. If. like thunderstorms and street cars, the source of the static is terrestrial, the hiss should have the same intensity all year round. But it varies with the hours of the day and the seasons of the year, as if Earth periodically gets between the radio receiver and an extra-terrestrial source of the hiss. In this variation the Jansky waves differ from Dr. Millikan's cosmic rays...
...Hollywood, Calif., cinema, sound engineers listed ten words barred from cinemas: Cohesion, distilling, aluminum, catastrophe, seething, felicitations, nemesis, procrastination, hippopotamus, and rural. Reason: most film actors hiss or swallow them...