Word: squeals
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...catches noisily on the edge of a zinc roof at the key moment. An American sleeping potion administered to a guard fails to work in time. Months are spent in building a raft, piece by piece and then storing it in a grave, only to have a fellow prisoner squeal. But Papillon still has money, left from more than 10,000 underworld francs that he put in a plan, a small, polished, waterproof metal tube, harbored in his lower intestine. Papillon is also stirred by dreams of revenge as well as a longing to go straight and start...
...Trial. Obviously a judge has to maintain order in his court, but ordering physical restraints is often futile. Bound and gagged, Bobby Seale still managed to squeal and squirm enough to disrupt the Chicago proceedings. Besides, the sight of a bound prisoner is repugnant to most Americans. And a gag only supports defendants' claims that they are being silenced for their political views. Judge Julius Hoffman finally ordered Seale to jail to await trial alone...
...packers make money out of everything but the pig's squeal...
...same time, it is a quiet car. You can be cruising right along, and suddenly, without scarcely noticing it, you're doing 80 miles an hour. It is heavy, but you can't feel it. You can flow into the drift of a rotary, and the tires will squeal with the strain, which will surprise you. You can't feel the road as much as you can feel the focus of God's movie camera on the smoothness of your existence
...with Blue Suede Shoes, Love Me Tender, Jailhouse Rock, Don't Be Cruel, Heartbreak Hotel, All Shook Up-and of course, the mangy Hound Dog ("cryin' all the time"). But things weren't quite the same. The audience was too grown up to scream and squeal. They clapped instead and called "Bravo!" and "More, more!" And Elvis-with longer sideburns and the grease out of his hair-was gently kidding the old songs and himself. After an especially rabid Hound Dog that ended with a split-kick jump, he was so winded that he reached...