Word: peep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were the Lion of Judah's lions to admire, fearfully. Once the house was full of fine new furniture from London, which she helped to arrange around the rooms. She could peep in solemn satisfaction at court ceremonies under the yellow umbrellas, and at banquets when her father's guests dined from gold plates. Her Shamma (Ethiopian drapery) was a lot more comfortable than European clothes. In private crises there was the haven of her mother's great brown bosom. And, when she was 14, her father winked at tradition and allowed her to head...
Quiet. However rambunctious in the past, Cheyfitz gave not one peep after WLB's jolting decision. But his old sidekick, tough, grim-faced Alex Balint sounded off, lambasted the order as a "mistake," said that worker "morale has dropped from 100% to zero." Then the union surprised everybody, said it would not sanction any protest strike because "we fully realize it would only create disunity...
Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, like a trained seal playing tunes on a battery of peep-peep horns, bobbed from one brassy note to another, burping warnings. The German Elite Guards with "new arms" had marched through Paris in "a westerly direction." An invasion of Europe was "bound to have disastrous results for the U.S. and England. It threatens dire calamity to the Anglo-American conduct of the war." In Vichyfrance, Pierre Laval chimed in, proclaimed to Frenchmen that any aid to invaders would be drastically dealt with...
...best when the enemy made his first attempt in eleven months to bomb Chungking, which had lain in its dugouts, all but defenseless, through 142 destructive raids between 1939 and 1941. It was the dusk of a balmy day when in fighter headquarters the radio began to peep and squawk. Chinese operators took the messages; they came from courageous Chinese watchers at secret radios deep...
Little Bo-Peep Has Lost Her Jeep (Spike Jones and his City Slickers; Bluebird). Put-Put-Put (Barry Wood; Bluebird). The words will drive you crazy, if the music doesn...