Word: squeak
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...letter-from-the-editor, in Charlie MacArthur's scuffed patent-leather prose. "The situation called for immediate action," he wrote. "We . . . sent for The Experts. [Then] we were wheeled into the operating room while The Experts did a complete plastic job . . . We feel as good as new. No squeak, no stoop, even no squawk . . . While we were under the anaesthetic, a soft rain of $1,000 bills...
Phumiphon Aduldet, 20, King of Siam, who is going to school in Switzerland had a narrow squeak. The young Possessor of the Four-&-Twenty Golden Umbrellas* ran his Fiat smack into a truck. Out of the hospital a few days later with his cuts and bruises well on the mend, he would not know for some time whether he had permanently lost the sight of his right...
...opaque ball that casts its tiny shadow. Because of that shadow-all the night music, the night poetry, the dark thoughts, the neon signs, the silent seductions, the bats, the thieveries, the large frights, the small frights, the mere worries, the walking of floors careful that no board shall squeak, and these canaries and finches and parakeets getting in their ten hours of sleep...
...instructor chooses to start a fire in an engine, an alarm bell blasts, the pilot stops the engine, and the controls react violently. The crew must know instantly how to bring in a crippled plane, be able to find the runway with a blind-landing system. Even the squeak of tires is heard as the wheels hit the concrete on a landing. The crewmen come back from their simulated flight in a sweat that is not simulated...
...Author Rene Raymond, whose bestseller of the same title had sold a million copies, had never been to the U.S. He had, however, read a lot of U.S. pulps, and his dialogue tried to catch the tone faithfully. Samples from the movie: "Look, Fenner, don't put the squeak into Slim." "Ya, I'd like to plug him in the guts." Most of the sequences involved fairly normal business like gun battles, kidnapings, dopings, and Miss Blandish's suicide. But there was one scene (where Miss Blandish's fiance is being kicked to death just...