Word: shrills
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Less Fun. Inflation has spoiled the fun. Bargaining has become shrill, bitter, desperate. When the housewife asks why tomatoes have jumped 10% overnight, why beans which cost 50 centavos a kilo in 1940 now cost 1.65 pesos, the stall-keeper glibly blames la situation Rusa or la inundation de Florida. Unconvinced that the Russians or the Florida hurricane has any connection, the housewife calls for witnesses to behold how she is being robbed; she may shout the top-drawer insult hambreador (hunger-maker), wind up with a call for el paredón (wall used as a backstop for firing...
...been damned as a buffoon and a tyrant, praised as a great liberal and an exacting administrator. He had performed miracles of political acrobatics. But New Yorkers had grown to think of him not so much as a political force but as a manifestation of sound and movement-shrill, vehement, energetic and cacophonous, as oddly comforting as the roar of the subway and the bleat of taxi horns...
...fill the U.S. Senate seat of the late Theodore G. Bilbo (TIME, Sept. 1) was shaping up last week as a mighty free-for-all. Four candidates had already entered the race, and several more were in the offing. The best early bet to win seemed to be shrill, old Congressman John E. Rankin, whose friends claim that he can "out-Bilbo Bilbo...
...furor over the new fashions rose to a fine, shrill pitch. Across the land, women by the hundreds-and city editors, too-flocked to the banners of resistance...
...Port-de-Bouc's solitary church bell struck six, the shrill blast of a ship's siren split the air. This was the deadline the British had set. If the 4,424 Palestine-barred Jews aboard three British prison ships in Port-de-Bouc's harbor failed to disembark, the British would order the ships to Germany...