Word: pipsqueak
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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...
...been unable to assemble enough strength in the Pacific to do anything else. But developments had apparently convinced MacArthur that when forces for "massive strokes" were assembled they would be entrusted to someone else. He was to be overshadowed, overlapped, inadequately supplied and relegated to a pipsqueak holding campaign...
...educational life. What the simple Ray did not guess at first was that the relationship between the sharp professor and the trembling student had been intimate enough to drive Janet into a mental home. He discovered Pauline to be more than "a sort of good-looking clotheshorse little pipsqueak of a schoolteacher." But, in finally winning Janet away from her, he learned the truth of their relationship and didn't want Janet any more. This triangular deadlock, unsolvable within its own limits, was forced to a happy end for Ray and Janet when Pauline's plagiarized lit erary...
...Pipsqueak to Airacobra. Born in pipsqueak Mentone, Ind., Larry Bell was so aviation-crazy he went from high school to work in the Glenn L. Martin plant, barged ahead to shop foreman when only 18, then vice president and general manager. In 1928 he switched to Consolidated Aircraft in Buffalo, got along famously until 1935, when the company decided to move to San Diego, concentrate on flying boats. But Larry liked Buffalo and speedy landplanes. So he decided to stay put, start his own company with some Consolidated leftover personnel. It was a nightmare grind...
...same time the Falange has tangled with militarists who say they won the war and have a winner's right to rule, and with Monarchists who want Spanish rule returned to the House of Bourbon. Needing the Falange for political support, Franco also knows that its practices and pipsqueak pomp are anathema to the Spanish people...