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Originally just a child's noisemaker, the pennywhistle is a 14-in. bit of metal tubing, drilled with six holes and flattened at one end for a mouthpiece. Though its natural range is one shrill octave, the seasoned player can squeeze out almost another octave. Like the New Orleans Negroes who once fused Dixieland from a great many different sources (including spirituals, marches, French and Spanish dance melodies), the penny whistlers began by imitating bagpipers and American jazz, with the occasional addition of native rhythms. To foreign ears the simple 4/4 tempo of pennywhistle jazz may seem repetitious...
...debate on election eve, O'Malley went on as the final speaker after two hours of shrill argument and ill-tempered accusations, and once again he threw his change-up. He was glad, he said, to be part of such a democratic process. He was sure the people were sick and tired of hearing about Chavez Ravine, and, as a matter of fact, so was he. "I'm not going to be angry with anyone," he said, "no matter which side loses." He looked and acted like a dumpy, fatherly man who could forgive his children their mistakes...
...nuclear-weapons tests at Eniwetok Proving Grounds-tests of such basic defenses as the first nuclear-tipped ground-to-air antiaircraft missile, the first deep-water anti-submarine nuclear depth charge and the low-radioactivity "clean" bomb-the uproar over the tests and their fallout got both more shrill in its public aspects and more sensible in its scientific debate...
Even as a preteenager, the nameless boy-narrator of Stars is the butt of his Danish schoolmates' gibes. They shrill "Cross-eyes" when he squints. At recess time, they rip off his cap and toss it into the chestnut tree. When he cannot quite make out the math problems on the blackboard and whispers questioningly to a deskmate, the teacher canes him. The boy takes this ugly-duckling treatment philosophically. He believes that his ugly-duckling family, as well as his weak eyes, is to blame...
YOUR father's a dirty scab!" is the shrill cry often heard these days on the quiet streets of Sheboygan, Wis. The gibe of one child against another is being echoed at the adult level as a U.S. Senate committee probes one of the longest, costliest strikes in U.S. history, the United Auto Workers four-year-old strike against the Kohler Co. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The "Almost Sinful" Strike...