Word: shriek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these beer halls, Himmler first heard Hitler. At once, he joined the party of the flaccid man with the frenetic shriek and the square-cut mustache. He carried the standard in the abortive Nazi beer-cellar Putsch of 1923. Himmler was not arrested; the Bavarian police of the Weimar Republic told him to run along and find nicer playmates...
...have learned that . . . the jobless in India are related to the unemployed here. The Postwar Problems Committee of the National Association of Manufacturers (business men all) has wisely declared that increased production in other countries will not reduce living standards in the United States. Those twisters of fact who shriek that your Vice President is a wild-eyed dreamer trying to set up TVA's on the Danube and deliver a bottle of milk to every Hottentot every morning should read that report...
...heap, they thought a bomb had blocked the entrance. They made a rush for the stairs. At that very moment (here and only here did the war touch this accident) something in the sky over London frightened those who had not yet entered. Some said that it was the shriek of a dive-bomber, others that it was London's new anti-aircraft shell which sounds like "100 witches going overhead at 1,000 miles an hour." The people outside surged forward and pushed down the stairs...
...lady got served all right, and worked her way through a meal, sitting with her escort and another couple. Along about the salad, there was a shriek of recognition from one of Eliot's more colorful waitresses. "It's a man,' she lisped, and then it was known...
Georgia's loss of academic standing meant that its degrees and course credits were not recognized by other colleges, that its law, medicine and teachers' college graduates could not be licensed in other states. Georgia's faculty began to leave, and its students sent up a shriek that made the issue outstanding in last fall's election, which replaced Talmadge with Attorney General Ellis Gibbs Arnall...