Word: shrilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They laughed when an Illinois farmer reported that he had significantly increased his crop yield by serenading corn plants with Rhapsody in Blue. And few believed Indian Botanist T.C.N. Singh when he said that a shrill electric bell speeded the germination of seeds and that classical Indian violin and flute selections promoted crop growth. Or the Australian fruit farmer who swore that he had raised bigger and better bananas by bombarding them with a loud, constant bass note broad cast from loudspeakers set up among the trees...
...letter from a Major Shaw [March 15] criticized an objective and honest commentary on the war as being "shrill with Cassandra's cry." Although misplaced, this classical reference is nevertheless strangely effective. Cassandra, who foretold the doom of Troy, was granted infallible prophetic powers by Apollo. The god later revenged himself upon her by causing every prophecy she made to be totally disregarded. No one ever believed her until it was too late. Perhaps this is true of Americans and the war of today...
...have come to rely upon TIME as a lucid and reasonably objective commentary on the events that are taking place in this world of ours. I find, however, that your recent commentary on the war and the Tet offensive [March 1] is blatant alarmism, shrill with Cassandra's cry and, from my vantage point at least, unsupportable in fact. This is painfully evident to anyone serving here. Your reporting of the impact of the recent offensive on the war, the government, and the economy, is exaggerated and misleading...
...statement today, McCarthy charged that "supporters of the President have failed to defend the merits of his policies or discuss a single one of the great issues which confront this country... The entire campaign for the President has consisted of a single shrill and irrelevant and false note; the implication that opposition to the President's policies is somehow disloyal...
Stolen Vineyard. As Baker's war of words grew increasingly shrill, exasperated elders of the congregation demanded that he be brought to trial on charges of violating church discipline under provisions of the Presbyterian Book of Order. The trial, which began Dec. 9, was held in the basement of the church, with two members of the congregation serving as prosecution counsel. Baker-who had melodramatically nailed a copy of the hearing notice-to the church door on Reformation Sunday-acted as his own defense attorney. In a closing summation, he linked himself with Naboth of the Old Testament whose...