Word: shrilled
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...paper that was "against people who push other people around." But PM was never quite sure what it was for. It made no consistent attempt to cover the news. Instead, it rode off on so many crusades that it often seemed to forget what the crusading was about. From shrill liberalism it had wandered into the pro-Russian camp-then had scurried out again and, recently, raised a horrified voice against Russia and also against its erstwhile hero, Henry Wallace. It had paid its way for only one year (1944-45). It had snooted advertising for six years, then found...
...begged the police to be merciful with the youth: "We should not harbor hatred." One of his listeners, deeply moved, shouted that Gandhi should proclaim himself a reincarnation of God. The Mahatma smiled. But his worshiper persisted. Then Gandhi's weak voice rose almost to an angry shrill: "Sit down and be quiet...
...Chicago rang with a rumor that Petrillo had been kidnaped from a suburban nightclub and that other union officers had seen fit to buy him back for $50,000. Jimmy issued shrill denials, distributed a C.P.A. report on the union's finances which showed no $50,000 deduction. But he took to riding in a $25,000 armored car, and recruited a force of bodyguards which included two city detectives...
...Bless My Soul!" Generations of students at Cambridge and London, and later at Harvard, learned to look alive when he exploded "God bless my soul!" That invocative usually heralded a significant pronouncement. His voice, in later years somewhat shrill, had the range of a roller coaster. In cutaway coat with stiff collar and ascot tie, Whitehead paced the lecture platform with hands in pockets. Vestigial tufts of white hair fringing a shiny bald pate made him look, said one pupil, "like an angel whose halo had slipped." Now & then Whitehead arrested his pacing to sketch a deceptively simple blackboard diagram...
...season for poetry. No significant new voices pierced the shrill chirping of minor versifiers. What distinguished the year's poetry most was the high ambitions of its practitioners: their attempt to carve verbal order from life's chaos. Few succeeded...