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...this year. And he would just as soon do it with his own personal bloc of voters as with Alex Rose's or the West Side Reform Democrats'. So when the Liberals indicated that they would refuse to endorse O'Connor, and city liberals began to grumble and screech, Kennedy calmly ignored them and, by not endorsing anyone, locked up the nomination for O'Connor...
...eerie screech of water birds sounded through the open-ended courtroom in Mwanza, a dusty little Tanzanian town on the shore of Lake Victoria. Solemn in his red robes and white wig, British-born Judge Harold Platt, a member of Tanzania's High Court, stepped up to the bench. Ededem Effiwatt, the ponderous, coal-black prosecutor, made ready to represent the state. And an unarmed African policeman stood guard by the prisoner in the dock. Everywhere he looked, Peace Corpsman Bill Haywood Kinsey, 24, a North Carolinian who had been charged with the murder of his wife, was reminded...
Moreover, much of what irritates modern man is simply new noise traded in for old. The ear that flinches at the diesel blat of a bus might recoil as much from the clang-rattle-crash of the old trolley. The whine of rubber tires replaces the bang and screech of unsprung cartwheels on cobblestones; the backfire supplants the ringing hooves of dray horses...
After Builder Einar Rossow put up the Oiseau Bleu (Blue Bird) apartment house, the screech of more than 50 jets a day at the nearby Nice airport discouraged prospective tenants. The Blue Bird's builder sued Air France, the major noisemaker. At takeoff, the government-controlled airline did not think it was in for much turbulence. Air France simply argued that the proper party to sue was the Nice chamber of commerce, which runs the airport. "We just land where we are told," said the airline. What's more, the builder had taken a deliberate risk: nestled...
...West has long since been closed to the pioneer, and its closing was mourned more than a century ago by Francis Parkman, a sickly Harvard law student who became a Western adventurer: "We did not dream how commerce and gold would breed nations along the Pacific, the disenchanting screech of the locomotive break the spell of weird mysterious mountains, women's rights invade the fastnesses of the Arapahoes, and despairing savagery, assailed in front and rear, vail its scalp-locks and feathers before the triumphant commonplace." Or, Parkman might add today, how a security-minded society and government would...