Word: shrills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio, in the press, in Congress, in Parliament there was the same shrill, urgent clamor. Along the "invasion coast" the Nazis maneuvered, bolstered their elaborate defenses, reportedly rushed some 3,000,000 Europeans away from possible areas of attack and tucked them away in concentration camps in Germany. Over the Continent was the electric tension that precedes a storm...
Then the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, at its biennial convention in Minneapolis, urged its 536,000 members to give "full support to the war efforts of their country with their substance and, if necessary, with their lives." Reason for this shrill small voice: the anti-Quisling stand of their mother church in Norway has convinced Norwegian Lutherans in the U.S. that militancy is the best policy...
Army radio men jumped. Down from the sky near Phoenix, Ariz, came a shrill drizzle of unmistakably Oriental jabber. They flashed an alert to nearby airfields. Out rolled patrol and scout planes, to snort and roar on the line in a hurried warmup. Suddenly somebody remembered that Chinese flyers were training in the area (TIME, Nov. 17). That was it, all right. Two of them, having a plane-to-plane chat by radio, had found piloting and talking English too tough, had relapsed into their native Chinese...
...tries to disturb this German front or to undermine the resistance of our people or to weaken the authority of the regime or to sabotage the achievements on the home front, he shall die for it." To this, Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels had added his own shrill, suggestive echo: "We still bear the scars from the divisions of our old party politics. Carefully and jealously we must watch that they do not reopen again...
Fiorello LaGuardia has never had high marks for decorum. Last week his misbehavior became so shrill and noisy that even tolerant New York took down its strap and went after its "Butch...