Word: shrills
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...True, there was a blow last fortnight that sent yellow dust billowing from Kansas to Texas. But it was no black blizzard of '36. True, the land was parched from the worst drought in ten years. It was too loose, drifting now and ready to fly in the shrill March winds...
Eleanor Roosevelt led the opposition, her voice shrill with emotion. "What is propaganda?" she asked. "Are we too weak in the United Nations to let people hear whatever they want to hear?" Until oppositionists could return home "unscathed and unhampered," she urged that UNO aid those who refused to go back. The packed galleries gave her a rousing ovation. Vishinsky retorted with a typical Soviet twister: "No democracy can permit tyranny to do what it wants. . . . We refuse to accept such tolerance." The UNO General Assembly backed Mrs. Roosevelt...
...farm animals. Two pigs were outstanding: Napoleon, a big, rather fierce-looking boar of a Stalinesque taciturnity and resoluteness, and Snowball, an ingenious pig of Trotsky-esque vivacity and eloquence. There was also a somewhat Molotovish barrow named Squealer, "with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice. He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive...
...would be a great night for the spilled highball, the cigaret burn, and the lamentations of teetering women who had just lost a high heel from one slipper. Shrill words would be spoken before dawn. At least one famous actor, writer or politician would get punched in the nose, and automobiles would collide with an abandon almost forgotten during the stodgy years of gas rationing. The morning-after consumption of aspirin, raw egg and Worcestershire sauce would rise again in proof of man's infinite capacity for hope...
...Secretary Patterson ridiculed the charge, and the Navy charts (a "fancy brochure" . . . "diversionary effort"). On lower levels the shrill cries were re-echoed...