Word: squeakly
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...early days of film animation-1928-that Disney labored and brought forth his Mouse. Mickey was the first situation comic: saucereared, squeak-voiced (it was Disney's voice on the early sound tracks), perfectly sensible, always cheerful, and eternally scampering in and out of trouble. He and the rest of the Disney bestiary were instantaneous hits with audiences primarily because they were anthropomorphic, hilarious because they were so incongruous. The loose-limbed, dim-witted dog Pluto was an unequal match for a piece of flypaper. Goofy was also a dog, but with more human attributes, who introduced each...
...Squeak to Victory. Marshall could make mistakes, and his biographer follows the general's admirable practice of admitting them. For example, before Pearl Harbor, he told an incredulous correspondent, TIME'S Robert Sherrod, that in a future Pacific war, the role of heavy long-range bombers would be decisive. As it turned out, the B-17s produced no early miracles. After the Battle of Midway ("the closest squeak and the greatest victory"), it was clear to Marshall that the Navy's carrier-based fighter-bombers were the big weapon against Japan...
...doggedly all season that it ranked first in the nation in rushing, pulled out a 19-14 victory over favored Dartmouth-by throwing the ball 23 times, including a ten-yarder for a TD. That was eleven times fewer than No. 7-ranked Nebraska had to pass to squeak past Colorado...
...close second and third, both supported the now-dead Civil Rights Bill of 1966. Both were liberals, although Finan, the organization candidate, was tainted by scandals in the-state administration in which he served. And together they received well over a majority, while Mahoney was able to squeak in with about 30% of the vote -- considerably less than the 43% George Wallace received in the Maryland Presidential primary in 1964. The racists and casual bigots had one candidate to vote for, while liberal support was fragmented...
...brain lies through the gnashing organ whose terrible turbulence would smash their delicate ship to smithereens. Then all at once top brass (Edmond O'Brien and Arthur O'Connell) has a dazzling idea: if the patient's heart were stopped for 60 seconds, the submarine might squeak through the right ventricle without getting tangled in the chordae tendineae that hang there in hundreds like looping lianas...