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...those who squeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Native Grain | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

...page. On the next page, though, he would turn up as a solemn, sonnet-writing traditionalist-or as Cummings the dreadful punster ("honey swoRkey mollypants"), or the pseudo pornographer happily smirking from the decks of his ship, the S.S. Van Merde: "May i feel said he (i'll squeal said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: E. E. Cummings: Poet of the Heart | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

McBride concluded that pigs have a vocabulary of at least ten easily distinguishable squeals and grunts, most of which express mood or emotion. A high-pitched squeal means distress or pain. A lower-pitched squeal, very common with pigs, says "I'm hungry." A short squeal like a dog's yelp means "I give up." Grunts are more subtle, says McBride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Language of Oink | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

...wealthy villager who refused to listen was shot to death by three masked gunmen. Gardener Lo Bartolo was arrested as an accomplice, soon was found in his cell hanging by the bed sheet-victim either of suicide or of preventive murder by the Mafia, who feared that he would squeal. Evidence against the friars finally came to light two years ago, when police discovered a typewriter in Father Vittorio's cell that matched some of the death threats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Felonious Friars? | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...crying "Foul!" The city of Chicago, the District of Columbia, and the state of Connecticut have banned Radar Sentry. Other states take some comfort from the fact that Radar Sentry is erratic; in informal tests. New York experts found that even diathermy machines and neon lights can trigger its squeal. But if the gadget continues to sell, many states will consider banning it. Says New York State Motor Vehicle Commissioner William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gadgets: Burble & Squeak | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

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