Word: squawks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris Opera people like the score he sent them. The trouble is, there's so much noise. At the garage next door, they are always gunning engines and throwing tin cans around; when he goes for a walk, small boys follow him into the quietest parks and squawk their little tin horns. How can a man write music in such conditions...
...behind this activity is five-ten and well built. His personal trademarks are a bow tie, a gleaming white shirt, and a guttural voice which rises with his intensity of expression until it approximates a squawk. Dunlop is basically a scholar and teacher, but he has an intense desire to merge the practical world with the academic. He likes to quote Whitehead: "It is the union of passionate interest in detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalization which forms the novelty in our present society...
Three years ago, fat Fuad Serag el Din was one of Egypt's masters. He planted his bulk firmly behind a huge desk equipped with seven phones, four squawk-boxes, three fountain pens and a mound of specially rolled, bat-sized Havanas, and bossed the secret police as Interior Minister, the treasury as Finance Minister, and the nation's No.1 political party as secretary general of the Wafd...
...trading hard on its cold war value to the West, wants all the Free Territory except the city of Trieste for itself, demands that the port be internationalized to keep it out of Italy's control. But diplomatic soundings in Belgrade suggested that Marshal Tito, though he would squawk, might be brought to settle for an arrangement that would leave him in control of the less populous Zone B part of the divided Free Territory of Trieste...
...command, much of the Wilson approach was new and surprising. For example: where many Washington executives like to inflict upon their subordinates the unsettling experience of hearing the boss's voice come out of empty air, one of Wilson's first acts was to order the "squawk box" moved out of his office so that he could do business face to face...