Word: shrilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voice was shrill and hostile-far from the bland, candid tones which had once beguiled Chinese and unwary Westerners alike into misreading the nature and underestimating the strength of the Communists. The message he uttered came straight from the Kremlin's Mimeograph room (see above). But for the first time, as Chou took pains to point out, Red China was sitting with the big powers...
...Telephone Company does not know how to stop these injustices. What of the creeping immorality? Some suggest room inspections and moral instruction. But there is a clearer course. Every last one of those shrill little black monsters should be destroyed...
Your Feb. 8 "One Shrill Call," belittling the efforts and motives of political campaigning, is an old, popular, sadistic sport . . . Why should not politicians seek office by proclaiming they are needed for it? After all, they have to eat, too. Certainly no one belittles the butcher or the plumber for seeking their jobs. Why must the politicians be given such a roasting? It is fortunate indeed that there are enough good American men and women with courage enough to undergo the siege of insults thrown at their efforts, the cries of incompetence, the insinuations of graft, and the snickering...
...crackled: "Post No. 3 reporting, 9:30 p.m. All is peaceful." This reassuring word came from the street outside 10630 South Bensley, where six cops sat in a tin shack, a hole in its roof covered by an old dishpan, warming themselves at a portable stove and ignoring the shrill profanity of a gang of teen-agers across the street. If Post No. 3 had reported trouble (as it sometimes did), hundreds of additional policemen would have been rushed to the scene. But this was a quiet night in Trumbull Park's seven months of racial conflict...
...reason that other folks run for a commuters' train: to keep their jobs or win better ones. Politics is their business, and to its fortunes they commit their education, their economic well-being and their egos. Since they are loth to admit this, they profess to hear the shrill call of public invitation. By last week the whistle was singing in the ears of several political commuters. Examples...