Word: squeak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help his boys discover the real meaning of the Gospel message, Burke has encouraged them to rephrase it in their own terms. The Good Samaritan thus became the "cool square" who helped a mugged victim after a "hood" and a "squeak" (not so cool as a hood) had passed him by. "You don't have to be a 'square' to show love and to be sorry for someone and to help a guy," the parable ends. "But get with it, man-this is what God wants you to do." In the Christmas story, Jesus is born...
...perpetual moue, she sings, dances, suddenly flashes her searchlight smile over an unpromising patch of script-and the lost art of ultrasophisticated comedy springs to life on the instant. She seems more assured than ever as a chic dissembler who has hung by her fingernails through many a tight squeak. As one swindle takes shape, she dryly murmurs to Belmondo: "Be there at 3:08 sharp-I'll be working without a net." Working together, they prove again that one sure way to fill out a meager movie is to feed it a couple of top bananas...
Mann scored his breakthrough when he discovered that the gentle flute, an upstaged squeak in the company of flashy trumpets and saxophones, could best flex its personality against a background of drums. Mann formed an Afro-Jazz Sextet and embarked in 1959 on a highly successful four-month tour of 17 African countries...
Squash coach Jack Barnaby came into Hemenway Gym Saturday hoping that his team could squeak by Army. Two hours later Harvard had demolished the Cadets 8-1, and Barnaby was talking in terms of "giving Princeton a real fight for the Ivy title...
Harvard is definitely stronger than last year, but so is the rest of the league, especially Army, which may have its best team ever. Should the Crimson squeak past Army at West Point this Saturday, however, the team might even find itself in the race for the Eastern title...