Word: shrilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Amman's rooftops, watching women sang out with joy, their shrill voices sounding like the collective cooing of a thousand pigeons. In the crowded streets, the people yelled: "Yaish el Malek-Long live the King!" Abdullah Ibn Hussein, direct descendant of the Prophet, also known to his good British friends as "The Ab," had just been proclaimed monarch over the 30,000 square miles of lava and desert reaches and over the 300,000 souls of Trans-Jordan...
...cacophony of coal, steel and railroad shutdowns, the shrill cry of alarm from users of copper has gone unheard. Yet by last week the four-month strike of copper mine, smelter, and refinery workers threatened to shut down makers of refrigerators, washing machines, radios, telephones, vacuum cleaners, etc. Copper output was down to one-third of normal, while demand was at a peacetime peak...
...people had not been talked to like that in a long time. LaGuardia's shrill scolding made them wince-momentarily, at least. But they still paid scant attention to the grave admonitions of Herbert Hoover, from that faraway, hungry continent of Europe (see INTERNATIONAL...
These are some of the "secrets" in Top Secret: earnest, shrill World War II history as interpreted by the editor of Manhattan's earnest, shrill daily tabloid PM. The subject is the Anglo-American invasion of Europe and the Battle of Germany. Editor Ingersoll, as a General Staff Corps officer, had a share in making and carrying out some of the plans involved. Top Secret was written after he was released from the Army (as a lieutenant colonel) in August...
...ostensibly the trouble had something to do with politics. The Liberal Union was marching through the Yard, protesting Winston Churchill's "warmongering." Partisans of the Conservative League decided to break up the parade, and-Rinehart! The riotous reason was really spring, and like a maenadic overtone sounded the shrill, feminine piping of Radcliffe girls, now virtually coeds at Harvard...