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Word: squawks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each ally had its special squawk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Global Squawk | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...riches. The Civil Aeronautics Board announced that it will reduce their airmail pay from an average 63? a ton-mile to 45?, will order them to refund some $5,000,000 on airmail overpayments dating back to 1947. The airlines were doing so well they raised not a single squawk. With the new 45? rate which CAB proposes as the actual cost-plus-reasonable-profit of carrying the mail, the Big Four will reach a historic milestone: for the first time, all were officially free of any Government subsidy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Big Year for Airlines | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...better acquainted, they go through a series of intricate ceremonials, each of which has its place in the growth of their relationship. First they bow formally, with outstretched flippers. Later, when they feel more intimate, they shake their heads, make a vibrating sound, or stretch out their necks and squawk. As their fondness ripens, the lovers preen one another or kiss by rubbing their necks together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Proper Penguins | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

Furthermore, these are the days of Associations for the Advancement of Colored People, Associations for "Minority" rights, and contributions to Israel. That's the business of those who make it their business. But I do not see how anybody who shares in such activities can unblushingly squawk about a bequest in aid of Anglo-Saxons. It's a movement from the censorship of singers and the censorship of movies to the censorship, now, of bequests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freedom of Discrimination | 3/31/1951 | See Source »

...lastly, what does she do in her spare time? Guzzle chocolate sodas in a nice warm drugstore? She would probably be the first to squawk about higher taxes to rearm the Europeans, in order to save our own men, and probably the last to be caught rolling bandages, or writing letters to servicemen, or anything else, at least on the volunteer basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten-Point Plan | 2/17/1951 | See Source »

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