Word: squealed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Farm gets as close to the sweat and slim profit margins of an uncertain occupation as any suburban slicker could imagine. Rhodes says he filled 42 notebooks during working visits to Tom Bauer's Missouri farm, and he seems to have used every detail from them, including the squeal of Bauer's hogs...
...between points. patrons are permitted to clap politely, and 15-year-old girls that aren't grunting and throwing tantrums and beating Martina Navatrilova on Court Nine are allowed to squeal "Yay, Andre!" Criticism is out of the question. Booing is blasphemous. Whistling is acceptable for protesting particularly egregious line calls, but only the players can yell and scream. And they do, in direct proportion to the amount of complaining they do about crowd noise...
...while (as if that would affect the people determined to vote against the Democrats because of race), Dukakis should have shared the platform with him, saying the Democratic Party has nothing to hide -- unlike the Republicans, who were smuggling Dan Quayle into grade schools where girls could squeal and boys could ask questions as dumb as the answers. By the time Dukakis began to respond, it was by desperately imitating Bush's first flag rallies and by producing mean copies of the Horton ad, substituting victims of the federal furloughs (something Dukakis had earlier said he would...
OUTSIDE the Naked I, two tall Black women wearing short skirts discuss the night's lottery number with a pair of Boston motorcycle cops. At first they squeal with glee, thinking they have won the legal number's game. Then they realize they have only hit the last three numbers. They walk away happy, but not elated...
There are times when the national sickness of racial hostility becomes almost unbearable. One night Smith heard the roar of cars racing past his house, the squeal of tires, then the rattle of gunfire and an explosion. Sometime later the phone rang, and the black woman on the line sounded on the edge of hysteria. She and her husband were known as antiapartheid activists. Their house had just been fire-bombed, and two of her sister's children had been badly burned...