Word: squeaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Squeak Emblem. Built by the Spanish and captured by Admiral Dewey, the ship looks more like a gingerbread house on a raft than a U.S. gunboat. She does not even have a full U.S. crew. Over the years, Chinese coolies in search of "squeeze" have slowly taken over all the work aboard-first the dirtiest jobs which no American sailor wanted to do, finally everything from cooking and laundry to electrical wiring and engine-room repair. By the time Jake Holman arrives, only the guns are reserved for U.S. control...
...heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence," said Author John Steinbeck 60. "But I am impelled not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession." Perhaps it was the fact that he stood on the Stockholm rostrum with five scientists (one American, four British) or perhaps it was just the old itch to shock. But at the end of his acceptance speech Steinbeck took the occasion to suggest a small revision...
...Adams-Lowell game was plagued by darkness, and had to be moved under the lights before Adams could squeak past the Bellboys, 14-6. In the fourth game of the week, played on extremely muddly fields, Winthrop poured across three scores, beating last place Quincy...
Kennedy knew from the first that medicare could not pass this year: a similar bill is still languishing in Wilbur Mills's House Ways and Means Committee, and Mills has no intention of letting it go to the floor. But Kennedy, still smarting under his narrow squeak in the election, thought he saw in medicare a red-hot political issue with which to bludgeon his opponents and win votes for Democratic candidates in November. Though the American Medical Association far overstated the case by calling the medicare bill socialized medicine. Kennedy equated its opposition with callous disregard of elders...
Ever since they first learned how to eavesdrop, scientists have realized that porpoises are gabby creatures. They whistle, they beep, they squeak-they always seem to have something to say. But no one could be sure whether the whales' small cousins actually talk to each other, or whether they merely use their prattle for underwater navigation-a sort of mammalian sonar. Engineers from the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. have finally decided that they do both...