Word: squeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organized crime, whose members well know their rights, but will simply end the present hypocrisy of hiding the Constitution from the squeal room's main customers-the poor, the ignorant and the mentally limited...
Salutary Influence. If properly revived, argues Goldberg, "misprision of felony would be a very salutary influence in our distressed society." Obviously, it would raise problems. How serious an offense would require disclosure? Would it involve mere suspicion as well as knowledge? Would close friends or relatives be obliged to squeal on one another? Goldberg himself feels that the offense should be limited to serious crimes, "perhaps only serious crimes against the person." All Americans, he says, "are familiar with their legal duty to report serious traffic accidents to the police. It is about time we consider violent assault on persons...
...unit of construction. It also incorporates a number of engineering advances that have long been standard on some lower-priced cars, including independent suspension for all four wheels, power steering and hydraulic disk brakes-to which Rolls added its own quiet touch by specially grooving them to cut down squeal. Another quiet touch may not cut down squeal: priced at $18,356 including tax in Britain, the car will cost a full $2,000 more than its predecessor...
Viet Cong prisoners seldom squeal on their Red buddies, and when they do their information is usually useless. Some are so terrified-and ignorant-that they babble meaninglessly to interrogators. Still others respond to questions with a sullen, defiant stare. But last week two captured terrorists led U.S. troops to some hot and fruitful fighting...
...anybody knows, there is poor Alain wrapped up in a plot to heist a million dollars' worth of platinum wire. Double and triple crosses pop in and out as if run through a revolving door, and thriller fans will find a plenitude of such ritual sounds as the squeal of tires, the chunk of a silenced gun and the rat-a-tat of sound-track percussion to activate their endocrines...