Word: squawked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small radio station, WQAO, in the basement of his church, and took to the air with his evangelistic message. Said Pastor Straton: "I hope that our radio system will prove so efficient that when I twist the Devil's tail in New York, his squawk will be heard across the continent...
...obstetrician's wife who has had two out of four children "naturally," I cannot let the remarks of Drs. Mandy et al. [TIME, Jan. 19] go unchallenged. The key to their squawk about natural childbirth lies in the assertion that "tried and true methods are suffering unfairly by comparison . . ." Childbirth under anesthesia demands, I admit, less time and effort from the doctor than the natural delivery, at which he must be like a coach to an athlete in the field. When these doctors develop a more mature relationship with their patients, they will see for themselves the rewards, medical...
...money for the carrier by an end run around the Joint Chiefs of Staff, by pressuring Congress and convincing Defense Secretary Lovett. With quiet confidence, the Navy thinks it can get enough money to complete its program of ten supercarriers. In desperation, the Air Force is starting to squawk covertly through its unofficial mouthpiece, Air Force magazine, and publicly in the steel-edged speeches of Under Secretary Roswell Gilpatric...
Actually the Navy could not squawk very much, since the things it suppressed were already generally known. By "violating" censorship, the U.P. had scaled the stunt down to size...
...antennas more than 3,000 ft. above the valley floor. Waves of such extreme low frequency are nondirectional; they spread in all directions, and Big Jim signals will reach any part of the world. They also penetrate the ground and the sea for a considerable distance. From its gigantic squawk box at Jim Creek, the Navy can give orders to all its scattered ships, even to atomic submarines that need never cruise on the surface...