Word: squealed
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...Then they are shooting skyward for 100 ft., only to dive abruptly again, down the second of 21 more hills. Frightening twists and turns dot the nearly one-mile course, and disaster seems inevitable as the train hurtles back and forth through its creaking wood supports. Finally, the sudden squeal of brakes in the station signals a merciful finish, and the stunned but happy passengers scramble...
...wants financial advice from a flounder? I go to the playground after the market closes, and the other kids make fun of me. "How's your Nike?" they laugh, knowing I shorted it at 70, betting it would go down. (It's 89.) "How's ol' Crappy?" they squeal, referring by nickname to a small auto- parts rebuilder I started buying at 7. I bought more last week...
...might call it buying a pig in a poke. Fifteen months ago, Ronald and Mary Kalish of Arizona adopted Sir Francis Bacon (Frank, for short) as a pet, and their life has never been quite the same. After supper, when the family gathers around the TV, Frank will squeal and howl if the channel is switched from his favored westerns or cartoons. Come bedtime, there is only one place where he will sleep: on the Kalishes' king-size mattress, snuggled between Mary and Ronald. If reproved, Frank may try to urinate on the offender's foot. Yet, far from feeling...
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...