Word: squeak
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...while boasting a voice like an "ungreased squeak," Teddy was given a large pair of spectacles and a 12-gauge double-barreled shotgun. With his new glasses he discovered birds for the first time. With his new toy he shot them by the hundreds. This metaphor of myopic aggression dominates the book...
...Mayor Culpa." He entered the mayoral race in late 1976 as an underdog and won in a squeak...
...only thought that I would have time for basketball," she admits. "In fact, that's where I got my nickname 'mouse'. It was during the halftime of a basketball game, we were losing, and as we dejectedly walked into the locker room all the team could hear was the squeak of my knee-brace--it drove them crazy. That incident combined with my small size and quick little scurry on the court earned me the nickname 'mouse'. The squeak drove them crazy. The nickname drives me crazy...
...years he was regarded as a solitary pip-squeak voice on the far right, a lonely ideologue from a Southern backwater. Today he can intimidate the Secretary of State, thwarting Alexander Haig's key sub-Cabinet appointments. When he notifies the White House that he wants to tell Ronald Reagan in person about certain gripes, the President cheerfully agrees to hear him out-even if the message includes a few instructions on how the President should behave as a true Reaganite...
...think it's great to see UCLA knocked off by Brigham Young--good for the sport when those titans lose. And that sure was stirring watching tiny St. Joseph's squeak past big, bed, top-ranked DePaul. But Kentucky? UAB? Gene Bartow...