Word: squealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel presumptuous enough to condemn all academia with a flippant phrase and a frustrated squeal. I despise people who take the discussion too seriously, as well as those who don't. I'm just thankful that I'm not like the others...
...Children squeal and flutter into schools where the poor are taught poorly and the rich look forward to careers in international banking. Men and women in nearly equal numbers take their stations at jobs that have less and less to do with making things and more with providing "services." (A service manufactures happiness for the sedentary.) Messengers deliver messages, cleaners clean, lawyers bill. The pace is heady, overwhelming, if one does not include cities like Youngstown, Ohio, where the steel industry has been nailed shut for the past few years, and small farms in Kansas and South Carolina that...
...post time at Heinold Downs!" announces Roy Holding, and a crowd of more than 1,000 at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield presses in eagerly against the restraining ropes around the track. In the paddock, the racers snort and squeal in anticipation. "Don't blink," warns Holding, "or you may miss the race...
...Socialist victory was largely a tribute to the charismatic Gonzalez, who has become one of the brightest stars in Europe's political firmament. Though voters no longer squeal like groupies when the graying-at-the-temples Prime Minister takes a podium, he retains magnetic appeal. "There is less emotionalism than before," says a senior foreign ministry official. "But he can still convince the man in the street." Gonzalez did that last March, when he persuaded a skeptical electorate to vote to keep Spain in NATO...
...Squeal of joy, the kind that parents can pay for but not buy. "Oh, Daddy!" the five-year-old said, staring out at the magic monorail, "thank you so much for bringing me here!" The boy's father must have wondered what he or Walt Disney Co. could do for an encore. The family's vacationland adventure had just begun; in fact, they were still at Orlando International Airport, in transit from the arrivals lounge to baggage claim. It is the challenge of any parent accompanying a child to central Florida: making sure rapturous expectations are not soured...