Word: shrills
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bust. Bouncing up & down the third-base coaching line, Dressen unfurls a series of antic semaphore signs, punctuated by shrill whistles, designed to befuddle opponents and give Dodger hitters and runners the benefit of his 31 years' experience as player (third base with Cincinnati), coach and manager. Unlike self-effacing ex-Manager Burt Shotton, he is no dugout sphinx. If some second-guessing fan questions his strategy, he is likely to switch his attentions to the crowd...
...shrill and all but unanimous anti-MacArthur climate of British opinion, the Rothermere and Beaverbrook press had shown considerable moral courage in getting down to the real issues of Korean policy...
...Nationalist friends found her changed. She had embraced a new cause: Communism. She became friends with Mao Tse-tung and other top Reds. Her letters from within Red China to her father in Seattle grew more & more shrill in their denunciation of U.S. policies. Last May she rejected her father's plea that she come back to the U.S.: "Whenever I hear from any of my progressive friends it's the same story. Persecution, false accusations, rigged juries, illegal court decisions . . . How can you want me to return to such a life? It would be like returning...
Giulio Confalonieri, critic of Il Tempo, came armed with a shrill whistle. He also brought along seven friends, similarly equipped. The curtain was barely up when they cut loose. From there on, through three acts, it was bedlam...
Vito Marcantonio, Manhattan's shrill-tongued voice of Communism in the House, stayed on in politics. Marc caught on as a lawyer for the Communist Party to fight the McCarran alien registration act through the federal courts. He had taken the job, said Marcantonio blandly, as a "public service...