Word: shrilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Squat, shrill-voiced Midwest Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa, 44, barreled into Chicago last week and kicked off his campaign to succeed discredited Dave Beck as president of the 1,400,000-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, biggest, most muscular union...
Electronic Conspiracy. Worst of all. his old ally. King Saud. whose money used to fuel Nasser's shrill pan-Arabism. spent all week conferring warmly with Jordan's young King Hussein in Amman. Only eight months ago, Hussein joined Syria and Saudi Arabia in putting their armies under the joint command of an Egyptian general. By last week the joint command had collapsed. Almost the first thing Saud asked on his arrival was what Hussein was doing about removing Egyptian-backed subversives. Hussein responded by demanding the recall of the Egyptian military attaché in Amman, Lieut. Colonel...
...whipping boy for Old Guard Republicans because he had written a book, A Republican Looks at His Party, and coined what they considered a personally obnoxious phrase, "Modern Republicanism." That was fine with Lyndon; he could use Larson to point up the Republican split. Second, the USIA's shrill critics in press and Congress had managed to spread the impression that USIA was an international boondoggle. Lyndon could therefore whack safely at USIA to prove that the Democrats are all for economy. Finally-and here came the perfect touch-Johnson came up with the idea of handing over...
After three years of scientific experiment (at a cost of some $200 million) and a storm of politico-moral argument that had risen to a shrill crescendo over the past fortnight, Britain last week dropped its first H-bomb off Christmas Island. 1,160 miles south of Hawaii...
...Supreme Court's epochal desegregation decision, some 14,000 Negroes and whites, members of a Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, converged on Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial temple. The three-hour program offered some prayers, hymns, solemn speeches and outright rabble-rousing. New York's shrill Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell bitterly cried: "We meet here today in front of the Lincoln Memorial because we are getting more from a dead Republican than we are from live Democrats and live Republicans!" In direct contrast, staking his hopes on the future rather than anchoring his peeves on the past...