Word: squealing
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Faceless Roar. The composition started with chimes, but chimes whose tone got an added kickoff from a xylophone tick and was sustained by the high squeal of clarinets. For the next 21 minutes nothing else was so recognizable. Instrumental sounds tumbled about in wild confusion; there was never a concerted attack or a distinguishable pulse. The percussionists made sense only because many of their rat-a-tats and grumblings came out as minute variations on themes. The winds, on the other hand, were so overpowering, so agonizingly taut, that the listener felt lucky to find a recurring chord to hang...
...whether a hippopotamus is 'frustrated' or not?" asked the mammalologist. "You may offer him some hay and then take it away just before he takes a big bite, and he may then growl, grunt, squeal, or do whatever a hippopotamus does, but that does not necessarily mean he's 'frustrated'," he added...
This week France celebrates Bastille Day once again, with a squeal of accordions in village squares, dancing in the streets, and a dazzle of fireworks over Paris. But in the Left Bank cafés of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, gravitational center for France's intellectuals, there is an uncertain note in the gaiety. In the grave and troubled summer of 1955, France is unsure of itself and of its mission...
...Mean Stories." Busch first seized on the Cardinals as a chance to have some fun and recapture his youth. At the first spring training, he arrived in a squeal of brakes, driving his bus, hopped out, donned a uniform and joined the practice. But now Busch spends much less time with his disappointing team. Last year the Cardinals finished sixth; this year they are fighting to keep out of seventh place. After investing $7,800,000 on buying the team and improving the ballpark (changed from Sportsman's Park to Busch Stadium), Busch desperately wanted a winner. When...
...lights are designed to keep people awake. If so, success is not entirely apparent, for some drowsy lads always sleep through the 2:15 grind, only to get the Administration's axe. Perhaps the aggressive girl who fires the buzzer late in the evening could give it a short squeal before the afternoon exams. This might have the additional advantage of frightening away the yearly surplus of panicked law students who invade Lamont. The librarians do nothing about the crowd except count it, and, wisely enough,say that it would be downright impolite to yank away chairs used for foot...