Word: squeals
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...unit of construction. It also incorporates a number of engineering advances that have long been standard on some lower-priced cars, including independent suspension for all four wheels, power steering and hydraulic disk brakes-to which Rolls added its own quiet touch by specially grooving them to cut down squeal. Another quiet touch may not cut down squeal: priced at $18,356 including tax in Britain, the car will cost a full $2,000 more than its predecessor...
Viet Cong prisoners seldom squeal on their Red buddies, and when they do their information is usually useless. Some are so terrified-and ignorant-that they babble meaninglessly to interrogators. Still others respond to questions with a sullen, defiant stare. But last week two captured terrorists led U.S. troops to some hot and fruitful fighting...
...anybody knows, there is poor Alain wrapped up in a plot to heist a million dollars' worth of platinum wire. Double and triple crosses pop in and out as if run through a revolving door, and thriller fans will find a plenitude of such ritual sounds as the squeal of tires, the chunk of a silenced gun and the rat-a-tat of sound-track percussion to activate their endocrines...
...cognizance of the complexity or even the reality of the situation in Viet Nam. The entire problem seemed to boil down to being for or against the burning of Vietnamese children. During one of the intermissions, however, my dismay was dispelled when I heard a bright-eyed young coed squeal, "Oh, I feel so anti." I left comforted by the thought that the whole simple-minded display had nothing really to do with Viet Nam; it was rather an exercise in group therapy designed to save wear and tear on a lot of fathers...
...play politics is to be a regular guy. You don't squeal on anybody. If somebody isn't doing their job, you call up D . . . . . and you let him know that someone isn't doing his job and should get off his ass. But you don't tell him who it is or give him enough information to let him find out. The first thing he'd do if he found out was go ahead and jump the guy and tell him that Vellucci squealed...