Word: squawks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheek, he may also have been aware of the finding of psychologists that the words commonly thought to be ugly-sounding are so considered, consciously or unconsciously, because of unpleasant associations and not because of phonetical harshness. Scholars recognize a few words as truly onomatopoeic; e.g., tinkle, plash, squawk. But in the vast majority of cases the reaction of a hearer is determined by meaning, not by combinations of vowels and consonants...
...lose his stork. "Take care of Oscar" the President benignly commands when leaving Neudeck, and Oscar, so peasants think, takes care of Old Paul. Last week Oscar, dozing on the President's roof with one leg tucked under his wing, straightened up with a jerk and a squawk as a roaring Mercedes sped up the long white road and out jumped Adolf Hitler...
When the British Government acquired the Codex Sinaiticus, famed Fourth Century Bible manuscript, from the Soviet Government, it announced that if the public contributed half the ?100,000 ($511,250) purchase price the Government would do the rest (TIME, Jan. 1 et seq.). Laborites in Parliament raised a mighty squawk, when they heard that the Codex had already arrived in London and the money paid over. It looked as though the Government was saddled with the expense, whether or no. But last week the Laborites were mollified when the Archbishop of Canterbury announced that the public had contributed its full...
...skirted scarlet coat and beaver hat, the perennial herald of the National Horse Show, Ringmaster Dutch White, blew "Pop Goes the Weasel" with many a false squawk on his coaching horn and another Manhattan social season commenced last week. It was more than a New York occasion. Dutch White's tootling this year opened a Golden Jubilee. Horses from Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Kansas and Czechoslovakia, riders from five nations (attracted also by last month's Chicago Fair horse show-TIME, Nov. 6) were at Madison Square Garden to participate...
There has been a loud squawk out here by the "More Holy than Thou" crowd against the adoption of this prison for the purpose of housing these intractable Federal thugs. While I cannot imagine any community inviting this "attraction" into its midst I do think that these protests are out of order. Convicted criminals must be imprisoned somewhere. I his somewhere must necessarily be in the proximity of some community. If the Government wants to use Alcatraz let the people of the San Francisco Bay area accept it just as citizens we accept unpleasant taxes, jury duty and compulsory military...