Word: squeaking
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...Hawkeyes hung on to a thin 6-0 lead over Ohio State, edged up on the Big Ten title and copped their tickets to the Rose Bowl. Michigan State dropped out of the Big Ten title scramble by losing to Minnesota, 14-13. Oregon State just managed to squeak past Idaho, 14-10, won a rematch with Iowa in Pasadena. Pitt, which will happily accept a bowl bid, proved it could handle one by tripping Army...
...brings heaven into my parlor while he sings or says it." William Hazlitt, angriest of English essayists ("He avows that not only does he not pity sick people, but he hates them"), was another devoted friend. Percy Bysshe Shelley makes a brief appearance ("His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with"), and there is one glorious occasion when Lamb "dined in Parnassus, with Wordsworth, Coleridge, [Samuel] Rogers and Tom Moore-half the Poetry of England constellated and clustered." Coleridge, "in his finest vein," stole "all the talk," and "I am sure not one there...
...experienced correspondent, who has been with him all the way, said yesterday that "there is no reason why he can't squeak through" if only he could maintain the audience control he had in Los Angeles. And while he held the crowd just about as well last night and drew a cheering mob yesterday driving through Boston, this is a difficult matter for Stevenson, for his speeches frequently range from the compelling to the dismal...
...helling around the coral reefs on submarine scooters that look like sawed-off torpedoes. And there is a hilarious conversation among whales, in which the moviegoer learns an awful truth. The largest of all mammals has a voice almost exactly like a mouse's. Whales squeak...
...Democrats kept studying the charts of the 1948 elections, in which Harry Truman carried four Republican farm states (Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa) plus border Missouri. They figured that if-just if-they could catch all five, hold the South plus all that Stevenson won in 1952, they could squeak in to victory next November...