Word: shrilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...response to the recent spate of violent crimes in the Harvard community, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) has been distributing shrill alarms as a safety measure, University officials said...
...right base for such ventures is a handsome and well-run lodge on Ambergris Cay called El Pescador, which has all the best guides -- and a welcoming committee of two ospreys that have built their nest above its pier and greet the arriving angler with shrill wheep-wheep-wheeps of alarm. El Pescador was built by a German, Juergen Krueger, and his Wisconsin-born wife. They started it about 18 years ago, when no sober carpenter could be hired on the cay. Much of the work, from laying cinder blocks to routing the panels in the heavy mahogany doors...
...step too far in the wrong direction, and awoman candidate can risk treading on some toes.While male candidates who are outspoken andaggressive are labled "tough," women who areequally tough are often labeled "shrill" or"bitchy...
Harvard is a lonely place for conservatives, and the more liberals attempt to silence us, or exclude us from the campus debate by name-calling and diabolization, the more shrill will our rhetoric have to become...
Choate's latest book, Agents of Influence (Knopf; $22.95), an impassioned, sometimes shrill, but always well-documented expose of Japan's lobbying muscle in Washington, will not be published for two weeks. But already the bearded and earnest economist is becoming the most divisive figure in Washington since Robert Bork. For Choate, in his book, identifies dozens of former top U.S. officials and politicians (such as Elliot Richardson, Stuart Eizenstat and Charles Manatt) whose firms represent Japanese clients, and he raises serious questions about the ethics of that practice...