Word: squeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing; they love walking around Harvard Yard and babbling over lukewarm coffee about how classy it all is--down to the elite roaches in your bathroom sink. They really mean it when they say it's your school; they think you own it. "Your library is so magnificent!" they squeal. Or, "It says in the paper that a Harvard professor just testified at a Congressional hearing. Aren't you proud?" To which one replies "shift no--he forgot everything I told...
...stop beat blasts away on the first side of the disc. In the title track, Gordon's band, the Wildcats, lays down a tight boogie rhythm and Gordon wails the praises of a lively nightclub on the edge of town. No one has heard the likes of his squeal in the choruses since Buddy Holly crooned "Peggy Sue" at the top of his throat...
Stop giggling and pay attention, because we are going to discuss what may be the only adult show on television. Children may stay in the room if they do not squeal excessively. Now then: What is small and green and surrounded by confusion, and is applauded each week by more people than there are in the entire...
...they can and cannot invest. So the administration would rather the move came from the corporations. The corporations keep saying that they're not going to write foreign policy, and that the move should come from the administration. The corporations don't mean that, of course, because they'd squeal like hell if the government told them to get out. There's also a measure of truth in the argument that it's impossible to divorce U.S. government interests from U.S. corporate interests. I've been amazed at how often discussions with State Department people sound to me like discussions...
...themselves, 'Is the defendant going to get me when he gets out of jail?' " When the Institute for Law and Social Research asked witnesses in Washington, D.C., what they needed most, the largest single response was "better protection." Intimidation is not just limited to witnesses who squeal on the mob or run afoul of mad bombers. In suburbia, parents wonder what retribution is in store for them- or more worrisome, for their small children- if they turn teen-agers in for petty vandalism. Intimidation is a major problem, not just in felony cases, but in misdemeanor courts...