Word: squeak
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...when one was old, and tired, and bored with Boston debutantes-). What a weekend that had been! They had come down the mountain in the dark, and there had been singing around the cabin stove after supper, and later a square dance in an old barn to the squeak of a country fiddle, stamping, and the laughter of pretty girls. He thought of long bicycle rides over country roads speckled with red and yellow leaves, and the tang of wood-smoke in the wind. And then there was the sharp outline of a snowy peak against the blue winter...
...days the Blues slowly advanced, the Reds slowly retired. Then the Second got its orders. Its commander, squeak-voiced Major General George S. Patton Jr., who hides much military culture behind the Army's best smoke screen of profanity, was ready to deliver a telling blow...
...month ago Speaker Sam Rayburn's aides had fought and shoved and sweated blood to squeak through draft extension by one vote-203-to-202. Now they told the Speaker that the President probably could get repeal of the Neutrality Act through the House. In August there existed grave doubts that a second Lend-Lease appropriation could be passed; now it was expected to be practically a formality...
Last week railroads, Government men and shippers held their breath to see if the railroads would squeak through October. At best, most of them expected some regional dislocations, brief but perhaps acute, and no one liked to think about the fall of 1942. Ralph Budd had estimated that the 1942 peak would require 160,000 more freight cars than there are now (other estimates went as high as 370,000 new cars). With or without a steel shortage, 160,000 is more new freight cars than have been built in any year since...
This was the leonine roar of Benito Mussolini five years ago. By last week that roar had faded away to a mousy squeak. Britain's official London Gazette announced that the whole area formerly known as Italian East Africa was now in British hands...