Word: squawks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard-packed snow on the sidewalks and streets. There are fantasies here just as surely as in Philadelphia. They say with pride, "In school, the other kids call us 'Olympians.' " A cab driver buzzes about town with his new CB radio turned up to catch a dispatcher's grating squawk through the static. "We got this radio system new since the Olympics," he boasts. "Now tourists can call for a taxi, and we come just like in other cities." At the skating rink where Torvill and Dean once carved perfection, the jam-packed crowd of children looks like...
...Only the squawk of voices breaks the extraterrestrial spell. As Joseph Allen, 47, and his fellow skywalker, Navy Commander Dale A. Gardner, 36, wrestle a disabled telecommunications satellite into the cargo bay of the space shuttle Discovery, they sound like a pair of movers trying to squeeze a 10-ft. piano through a 9-ft. door. "Joe, I assume you're comfortable there," says Gardner. "Not very," replies Allen. "Sorry to be taking so long," apologizes Gardner. "It's harder than it looks, just floating around." Back at mission control, a NASA spokesman quickly reminds reporters...
Donald has his excuses for veering off into extremism. Getting fired is never easy to take. But when the boss has trained a parrot to squawk out the bad news, the experience is likely to be more than usually unnerving. And that is only the beginning. Treated rudely at the unemployment office, Donald cannot even have a bracing cup of coffee and a peaceful cry in the luncheonette across the street. For it is just then that a masked and seemingly psychopathic gunman (Jerry Reed) decides to hold up the place. With a little help from Sonny Paluso (Walter Matthau...
...suffers from the unreasonably high expectations of students who come here anticipating the best education on earth and instant gratification in every endeavor. Once they discover the school's idiosyncrasies, students begin parroting the age-old complaints: "Classes too big, no one to tell my troubles to, departments impersonal...squawk!" With experience, most learn that a little personal initiative goes a long way, and they graduate less starry-eyed but without calamity...
...later, by defection or defeat, the soldiery will fall, though the lengths Somoza went to--including the aerial bombing of Nicaragua's cities--are terrifying. Especially worth American notice is the deadly force of a few jeeps with gun mounts and a few more armored personnel carriers. Few squawk when such material is dispatched to Latin American despots, but against outgunned opponents, and unarmed civilians, it is precisely this equipment that allows control of city streets...