Word: howling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setback in Indo-China gave the Communists and fellow travelers a chance to howl for an end of the war and a negotiated peace with Viet Minh Boss Ho Chi Minh (see WAR IN ASIA...
...greatest howl of all came not from the producers or buyers but from the Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther. Said he in a letter to NSRBoss Stuart Symington: the new credit restrictions would create "mass unemployment before there is enough defense work and take materials out of civilian production before they are needed in defense production. They are discriminatory, ill-considered and dangerous. They are a grievous blunder . . . The Federal Reserve Board, living in a world of banker mentality and unaware of basic production problems, has . . . made a stab in the dark and the knife is in the backs...
...shot from the catapults, then the big, rumbling Skyraider dive bombers; and after the propeller-driven craft were well away, the jets were brought forward. Started by motors hustled about the deck by tiny yellow jeeps, the Grumman Panthers shrieked protest, then raised their voices to a horrible, thundering howl as they shot from the catapults...
Last fall, in a move toward a negotiated peace, the academicians agreed to let the Tate take a hand in the picking. The first purchase under the new system, a tasteful portrait by Augustus John, seemed to satisfy everybody. With the second, the conservatives set up a howl...
...away look came into Yermakov's eyes as he explained, "I went down there over spring vacation and met some of them." Then he turned his head away and let out a low howl. Becoming serious again, he added, "But this is only until I earn enough money to come back to Harvard to stay...