Word: squeak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three of election? Currently, Thomas Coates, a black former councillor, is running ninth with 1171 votes. If the firstround votes cast for the other two blacks-School Committeeman Gustave M. Solomons (819) and Henry F. Owen III (525-eventually go to Coates in the redistribution, he will just barely squeak in over the 2492 quota. If an appreciable number of the votes are scattered to white candidates. Coates probably won't make...
...Tigers made costly mistakes early in last weekend's game with Colgate, and despite a rally, lost, 35-28. Five Quaker interceptions and field goals by Eliot Berry enabled Penn to squeak by Lehigh, 13-7. Princeton is likely to be more fired-up than the Quakers, and the game will be in Palmer Stadium...
...this game and the one with Holy Cross to the Princeton contest." The Tigers are undefeated in the Ivy League, and Munro wants to use the next two games to prepare for Princeton. "I can't conceive of Williams beating us, but you never know, they just might squeak by us," he added...
...egregious Kenneth Widmerpool, whose fatuous careerism and brassbound egotism have provided veins of comedy running through all nine books. Widmerpool, an ambition addict who flourishes amidst the adversities of the rest of the world, turns up as a colonel, squeezing the epaulettes of power until the pips squeak. These exits and re-entrances emphasize that it is high time for Powell's publishers to provide a score to The Music of Time-not a musical score but a box score, giving the family trees and vital statistics of the more than 100 characters involved...
...hunger and exhaustion, and sometimes their bodies lay untouched for weeks. When they were finally hoisted onto trucks, one observer recalls, they were so frozen that "they gave a metallic ring." The silence of the city was broken only by bouts of German shellfire and, in winter, by the squeak of children's sleds bearing corpses to cemeteries...