Word: squawks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether the discreet little Bishop thereupon suppressed a loud and indignant squawk is not a matter of record. But last week the incident supplied him with a lively topic for a speech before-the France-America Society. La Belle France, mother of La Fayette and De Grasse and more recently a noble Ally had, in his opinion, been grossly outraged...
Long-necked Japanese cranes make a peculiar gurgling squawk. Near the crane pen in the Washington Zoo stands a pretentious apartment house whose residents have long been annoyed by the gurgling squawks of the Zoo's cranes-Japanese, Siberian, domestic. When Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan of Colorado moved into this apartment house, other tenants hoped he would be disturbed by the cranes, be awakened by one particularly noisy Japanese crane (named Anson) who squawked before dawn each morning. They felt sure that if Senator Costigan complained, something would be done to silence the cranes...
...Simultaneously the third wave of the revolution was sweeping across President Florencio Harmodio Arosemena's famed Moorish patio, disturbing the tortoise in his fountain pool, causing the tame white cranes and the egrets to wake up and squawk. Warned by these fowl, the guards of the Presidential Pal ace were alert. They raked the first group of advancing revolutionists with a volley, scattered them in headlong flight...
Moscow is hungry for fresh vegetables, could do with more fresh meat. The bread shortage of last year no longer exists, but this evidence of better times was all but ignored last week as a great squawk began about the Vegetable Scandal. Squawked the Workers' Gazette...
...porters gathered there every morning to draw water for their daily needs. There one Yusuf Hanoum, leather worker, sat down to rest last week, while his pet duck, name unknown, hopped up on the well curb :to keep him company. A stray dog frightened him. With an agitated squawk Yusuf's duck fell into Ihlamour's well. Unable to extricate his pet, Leather Worker Hanoum dropped half a loaf of bread and a large piece of goat's milk cheese down the narrow 50-ft. well to keep his duck from starving, went to warn the authorities...