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Word: squeak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aquadudes Reign Over Engineers, 15-8 | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bowing Out with a Flourish | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top-Secret Strategy | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Nerf Balls and Olympic Dreams | 9/27/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Make Good Things for Flying | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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