Word: shrills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shoppes & Sodas. A shrill curfew whistle sends Val D'Or's moppets kiting home at 9 p.m. The town's Third Avenue (the main stem) has nine hotels* (including a Ritz and a Continental), sandwich shoppes and beauty salons, four furniture stores, taxis, even such accouterments of civilization as a nightclub and a stock exchange (one recent day's business: 27,000 shares, representing $50,000). Val D'Or's drug stores sell barrels of pop. Miners get ice cream sodas at the Splendid Sweets...
...Cosgrave, who signed for Canada, had written on the wrong line. So had the French, Dutch and New Zealand signers who followed him.] The orders were placed in their hands and the Americans curtly gave them the signal to leave. They turned and departed as they had come. The shrill bosun's pipe followed their steps over the side-Shigemitsu, tired and expressionless, limping on his cane as he went; Umezu, stony-faced and silent, lifting a white-gloved hand to acknowledge the salute of the guard at the gangway...
...tries to get the police again, hears the killers in the house. Listeners suddenly hear a shrill, terrifying scream. Then a second of complete silence-so intense that it can almost be heard. Finally, the police get through on the phone, and a killer, having done his job, answers: "Sorry, wrong number...
...Beectory." Manila echoed as soldiers drove jeeps and trucks madly through the dusty streets, blowing horns, beating on fenders with iron pipe. Over the din sounded the shrill voices of children screaming: "Beectory .. . beectory...
...years of undeclared civil war, the armies of China's two factions have had many more serious clashes (in 1941, a battle between the Communist New Fourth Army and Central Government troops lasted nine days, cost more than 10,000 casualties). Then what did Yenan's shrill charges mean at this time...