Word: shrilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President, seated on the forward gun deck of his ship, received the royal visitors as the crew manned the rails, bugle calls sounded and the shrill notes of the boatswain's pipe kept all hands standing rigidly at attention...
...Honor Fiorello LaGuardia added his shrill voice: "It just happened that Brooklyn College was the school that was caught, but Brooklyn College is not the only...
Unlike the human variety, whose shrill voice it shares, the shrew's bad temper is the result of a too good digestion: So rapid are its metabolic processes that a shrew will starve to death in a matter of hours if it does not keep eating. If two shrews are caged together overnight, only the stronger will be found in the morning...
This was the old shrill cry; it was unmistakably Hitler...
...years, shrill, tough Florabel has been working on a no-quarter basis, is supposedly the first woman to be admitted to the rim of a Pacific Coast copy desk, is known to be equipped with a sulphurous vocabulary. She gets news in brusque, traditional police reporter fashion, chases ambulances at any hour, sticks her chin into any situation. Her writing is straight, sometimes awkward, always humorless...