Word: squeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What if Swift and Armour were to give up packing meat and start selling block-frozen string -beans instead? What if Goodyear and Firestone were to stop producing bulging pneumatic rotundities that tread softly and squeal raffishly? And what if Boeing-maker and creator of the 707s-were to open its vast doors only to release a string of skinny, canvas-covered, piston-driven biplanes...
...grown from 12 to 17. More than a tenth of the 10,000 students in the regular session at Alabama's main Tuscaloosa campus are in the graduate schools. Not that bookish sobriety rules the campus. Some 3,500 coeds provide the usual distracting feminine graces, and "squeal night," the traditional end of sorority rush week, is just that: "You can hear those girls shrieking all the way to the other side of Tuscaloosa." Faculty morale is high, and teacher turnover low, out of a sense of assured academic freedom...
...those who squeal...
...page. On the next page, though, he would turn up as a solemn, sonnet-writing traditionalist-or as Cummings the dreadful punster ("honey swoRkey mollypants"), or the pseudo pornographer happily smirking from the decks of his ship, the S.S. Van Merde: "May i feel said he (i'll squeal said...
McBride concluded that pigs have a vocabulary of at least ten easily distinguishable squeals and grunts, most of which express mood or emotion. A high-pitched squeal means distress or pain. A lower-pitched squeal, very common with pigs, says "I'm hungry." A short squeal like a dog's yelp means "I give up." Grunts are more subtle, says McBride...