Word: howl
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Among ourselves we bemoan local politics, and at taxpaying time our concerted howl can be heard from here to there, when in outrage we maintain that we have higher taxes than anybody else anywhere-and why not with the new school and hospital? But when we are attacked by an outsider, we are one cohesive family, and the aggressor had better choose his weapons...
Texans last week heard the wind beginning to howl in the Democratic primary campaign for Congressman-at-large. Two raucous voices bansheed out of the past...
...Force demand for such a huge buildup is apt to touch off the loudest howl the Pentagon has heard since the row over the B-36-and principally from the same source: the Navy. But if Air Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg fails to convince his colleagues in the J.C.S., the Air Force is ready to take it up to Defense Secretary Marshall. There the Air Force expects...
Kohlberg sent the letter to every member of Congress (Lieut. Evans had given him permission to publish it). The Navy, getting wind, let out an outraged howl at so blatant a defiance of regulations, convened a Board of Inquiry. Last week the Navy found Lieut. Evans guilty of "grave misconduct" for his abusive language and breach of clearance regulations, stripped him of his commission, and gave him a discharge...
...industry let out a howl of anguish four years ago when General Motors' research wizard, Charles F. Kettering, announced a revolutionary new auto engine. By using gasoline with a 105-octane rating, Kettering's high-compression engine could get 30 miles to the gallon. Complained oilmen: to provide enough 105-octane gas to make such a revolution practical would require a $2 billion rebuilding of their whole refining equipment...