Word: squawks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around me bitch, but we feel that none of the brass ever hears any of it. And that makes it all seem even more futile than it is. But we know that Mauldin hits home where we can't. Maybe General Patton has only seen two, but every squawk. from him, from Base Section General Wilson, and some of the old-line R.A. Colonels-that makes the next five miles seem like only four! And when General Eisenhower backed up Mauldin against all the stars-well, after that, Ike was our man. Through Up Front we can bitch...
...Since Sept. 6 when I left Mitscher's flagship, I have watched the Palau and Philippine operations from five big carriers, five destroyers, one cruiser, one tanker. During the strike at Manila Bay I was on the bridge. Suddenly the squawk-box warned: 'Four Jap planes closing in,' and our ships moved into tight anti-aircraft formation. Through our ear-cotton the flash of guns sounded like a mad symphony on kettle drums. A Jap fighter made two strafing passes at our stern and got away with it, but a minute later I watched him dog-fighting...
Politico Palmer advised: "No arguments about international relations or obligations, no black eyes and bloodied noses from arguments about isolation; not a single squawk about the dangers of Communism or the menace of the American Fascist. Just 'to hell with bureaucracy and the bureaucrats...
...First to squawk at the invasion of their field was the National Association of Retail Druggists, who last week asked drug manufacturers to supply drugstores first. The trade...
...best when the enemy made his first attempt in eleven months to bomb Chungking, which had lain in its dugouts, all but defenseless, through 142 destructive raids between 1939 and 1941. It was the dusk of a balmy day when in fighter headquarters the radio began to peep and squawk. Chinese operators took the messages; they came from courageous Chinese watchers at secret radios deep...