Word: squeak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the slow start, the Crimson started to score. And score. And score. All in all, eight unanswered goals crashed into the back of the MIT net. It wasn't until a minute left in the first half that MIT managed to squeak by a lone goal after its initial flurry. At the half, the Crimson...
...crying out in the woods. After she leaves the tent, the audience hears it too. The family tumbles into its car outside a diner near Amarillo, Texas, and resumes squabbling, only this time father and daughter swap roles and accustomed dialogue, and so do mother and son. The elders squeak about needing a bathroom break. The children trade curses about whose bad idea this adventure was, anyway. Then they screech off into the night, ostensibly with a grade-schooler in command of the steering wheel...
...gift and diverting to personal use $4,300 that was supposed to go to the contras. Says Georgetown University Law Professor Paul Rothstein: "We had what promised to be a huge herd of trumpeting elephants, a trial with really dramatic testimony. Now it may dwindle down to a mouse squeak...
Madrid, 1986, the World Championships. The Puerto Ricans once again face the Americans. The U.S. can't hit the free throw but still manages to squeak out a two-point victory...
...industrial might, General Electric was treated like a pip-squeak when it first entered the macho business of building commercial-jet engines. Two decades ago, when a GE representative tried to sell a new engine to Donald Nyrop, then president of Northwest Airlines, the executive pointed to a ceiling fixture and wisecracked, "Whenever I want a light bulb, I'll pick GE's. For jet engines, I'll stick with Pratt & Whitney!" Nearly all jet airliners built at that time, notably the long-range Boeing 707 and shorter- haul McDonnell Douglas DC-9, were powered by engines carrying Pratt & Whitney...