Word: pipsqueak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There have been some complaints about red tape and delays, chiefly against dentists, who must get an O.K. from their Dental Estimates Board before starting expensive dental work. Said one dentist last week: "Sometimes it's a damned nuisance getting authority from some pipsqueak on the board before you can start a job, but I admit there are some chaps who would yank out a mouthful of teeth for the profit they get on the dentures. So in a socialized service I suppose we've got to put up with some interference...
...They say they're against people who push people around. Well, I'm people! My name is Norman Corwin, just like anybody else. In a tizzy I called Ralph Ingersoll. 'Hello! Ralph! Baby!' I said, very formally, 'Would you be interested in running my pipsqueak paragraphs for free? I promise not to mention my Technicolor trap [nor] the 50 girls with the 49 costumes.'-O.K., elephant boy,' said Ralph...
...diseases go, German measles (rubella) is pipsqueak stuff. The rash fades quickly, rarely lasts longer than three days. But last week, Dr. Murray H. Bass of Manhattan had some things to say about German measles which sent many a matron scurrying to her medical books for symptoms (mild fever, spots...
...Crux. Absorbed in such social projects, the Government had a narrow escape in the press-law controversy. Though the new bill was only mildly restrictive (nothing like the law it replaced), reactionary papers like El Comercio and La Prensa and the pipsqueak smear-sheets that Latins call pasquines rebelled most at the requirement that they publish a statement of ownership, stirred up the fuss that ended in the Plaza scuffle...
German measles (rubella), as most adults know it, is a pipsqueak disease which produces only a rash and a mild fever. But if pregnant women catch it, it can give their unborn babies heart disease, cataracts, bad teeth or even make them deaf mutes or idiots. Many such children die in the first few weeks of life. These frightening facts, which have just begun to worry baby doctors, were thoroughly aired last week by Manhattan's Dr. Philip M. Stimson, speaking before the New York Academy of Medicine...