Word: squawks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though he gives them plenty of freedom to exercise their talents, he constantly prods, needles and nags them. His aggressive concern for the consumer and his attention to the slightest details is both an inspiration and an irritant to insiders. After one recent exchange with Straus on the interoffice squawk box, David Yunich, the president of Macy's nine-store New York division, sighed: "Sometimes I'd like to confine the admiral to the sundeck...
...worst weeks of the long war against the Viet Cong. Tall bottles of Krug champagne stood at attention next to Long John Scotch in the windows of shops filled with luxury goods, and the cafés and milk bars were jammed with clothes-conscious students oblivious to the squawk of loudspeakers in planes flying overhead commanding all males between 20 and 25 not yet under arms to register for the draft...
...summer camp to work as a waiter. Among other curiosa, the camp boasts a sullen horse that looks like Robert Ryan, and children who have "the faces of middle-aged manufacturers." He makes sad love to a girl camper who when her breasts are caressed emits a horrendous squawk like a "sudden plumbing defect in a far-off house at midnight." When his last college application is turned down, Joseph consoles himself by rifling the lockers of the other waiters and, being Joseph, gets caught...
...could be done for him, and even less that he could do for himself, as he lay in an overheated room, apprehensive and overly aware of all that was going on around him. The hospital sounded like the lower decks of a battleship. The corridors were a babel of squawk boxes, counterpointed by the gun-mount rumble of food carts, the depth-charge banging of slammed doors. Though some of his nurses were ministering an gels, Hodgins laments the modern hospital's chronic shortage of hands. "In the old days," he says, "a patient put on his light...
Stahlman: I have called you on my office phone with the squawk box on, so that my administrative assistant, my editor and my legal counsel can hear what transpires between...