Word: shrills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front" federation in which his supporters would have equal strength with Baath. After a ten-hour conference with Nasser, President Atassi flew home and rushed to the military hospital to kiss the soldiers wounded in defending his regime. At week's end Damascus radio was still making brief, shrill broadcasts insisting that the revolt was crushed, but the country remained buttoned up against the outside world, with borders, airports and harbors sealed...
Occupational Hazard. Cairo Radio still beams shrill demands that "the criminal King of Jordan" be overthrown, and Hussein never leaves his palace without a loaded pistol in his shoulder holster. But plucky little Hussein - scornfully referred to by Cairo as "transistor-size" because of his 5-ft. 6-in. height - has a king-size knack for survival. This year alone, he escaped three murder attempts, all laid to Nasser. "Assassination." says Premier Wasfi Tal dryly, "is an occupational hazard for the King and his Cabinet...
...brass section is currently the strongest part of the Ensemble, the French horns and lead cornets being particularly fine. With the exception of the oboe and the first stand clarinents, the woodwinds were sometimes painfully shrill, and attacks were not always clean. Perhaps because of inferior equipment rather than lack of playing skill, the percussion section did not have the clean staccato required by Persichetti, Kurka in the Good Soldier Schweik, and Barber in his Commando March...
...Mighty Purge. Who was behind the campaign of terror? Shrill attacks in the progovernment press and radio blamed "the American imperialists" and their allies, but the blame clearly lay closer to home. Even the anti-Western Ghanaian Times spoke of the "urgent necessity for a mighty all-out effort to purge all government departments and party and state organizations...
Past the 104 white flagpoles outside the United Nations building last week rolled a fleet of limousines delivering diplomats to an autumn rite as familiar and often as shrill as the first day of school: the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. Settling down to business, the delegates welcomed the U.N.'s four newest members-Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Rwanda, and Burundi-whose admission boosted Assembly membership to 108; Algeria and Uganda will be up for admittance later in the session...