Word: shrills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prolonged Study." Most apathetic spot in the country was the territory served by isolationist Chicago Tribune, where the Tribune's editorials and Charles Augustus Lindbergh's shrill "they can't touch us" had all but drowned out OCD's weak little toot. Last week the Midwest had just begun to yawn and stretch. In Wisconsin it was announced that plans for civilian defense were going to be given "prolonged study." St. Louis declared that it would get around this week to enrolling some 50,000 volunteers which it figured it might need...
...Walter Lippmann, "Mrs. Roosevelt's talent for sugar-coating the matter with all manner of fads, fancies, homilies and programs which would have been appropriate to the activities of an excited village improvement society" and the "desk-thumping, the shrill appeals, the threats and warnings" of Mayor LaGuardia were not appropriate to the "grim business" of civilian defense. It should all be put under the jurisdiction of the War Department, said Mr. Lippmann. "The facts of the situation, and the morale of the people require lucid and authoritative commands." Mrs. Roosevelt should stop confusing everyone by being a minor...
...Yank soldiers at undisclosed posts: "I'd like another crack at those low-flying bastards. Write my mother I'm a hero. I'll stay here. I'll stick it out."...Night sounds: howling dogs, shouts from sentries, douse that cigaret, turn off those lights, shrill police whistles, automobile backfires, the babble of Filipino and American voices...
...time this shrill declaration was made there was no longer reason to doubt that Germany had already dealt the first blow. The weapon had been Japan. The attempt to cut the U.S. life line to the Orient was the opening move of the second phase of World War II, designed to prevent the U.S. from helping its Allies while the Axis disposed of them...
...through the Kearny's armor. The explosion killed seven men stationed in the forward boiler room on the steaming watch. Its force ripped up through the deck, wrecked the starboard wing of the bridge, knocked the forward stack back and broke the siren cord so that its shrill yowl could not be shut off. Four others disappeared, probably blown overboard...