Word: shrilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bone-wet chill of winter lifted, and pale sunlight laid shadows of the leafless chestnut trees in fine tracery on the cobbles alongside the Champs Elysees. The swank Ritz cocktail lounge and the grave Plaza Atheéneée bar were shrill with the sound of American females emitting the ritual cries of greeting as they hailed each other from divan to divan. In the lush Victorian plush of Maxim's, stumpy men from Manhattan's Seventh Avenue sat heavily, resting weary feet. Fashion reporters, department-store buyers and manufacturers, they were gathered for the annual rite...
...production of Donizetti's Poliuto, it mustered 1,200 people and two lions. Such habits have saddled Italian opera companies with groaning annual deficits, which in recent history have been paid by the government. For weeks now, politicians, newspapers and plain opera lovers have been raising shrill voices in protest against a proposed cut in government opera subsidies...
When the infant's head emerges, the fully conscious mother demands to know whether she has a boy or a girl. "I can't tell," the doctor replies. "That part isn't out yet." Moments later, the shrill wail of young David Usill rises above the murmur of the bedside sounds. "Oh, doctor," breathes the mother, "that's beautiful...
...still the angering hum of change, Duncan listens only to the harmonic rhythm of the seasons, the shrill "kree kree" of a crying hawk, the explosion of hot sun on ripe tobacco leaf. He scours the countryside to breed an aging mare of a great blood line, and his father's death is somehow symbolically salvaged by the birth of a perfect colt. A second marriage of his own turns to ashes when he discovers that his wife is his neighbor's castoff doxy. Lonely and alone, he rides Chief, the young stallion, deeper into his estate where...
...tested rating tonic, Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley. Yet Presley's pelvis-wagging in his last appearance on the Sullivan Show had raised a howl from many viewers. The solution: Sullivan cut Elvis in half; i.e., his cameras televised Presley exclusively above the belt, so that only the shrill of studio fans signaled the action below. Sullivan won a Trendex rating of 46.2, his highest yet. For Presley-haters there was little comfort but the wishful hope that by showing no pelvis, Sullivan had started a trend that would lead to showing no Elvis...