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Three weeks ago startled network officials heard frustrated Bill Goodwin sing out his sign-off ("This is CBS ... the Columbia . . . Broadcasting . . . System") in a rapidly rising whine that broke into a high, hysterical giggle. Fortnight ago he concluded it with a stricken "OUCH!" Last week, he added a single, unsavory "Ughh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Announcer's Exit | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...Another string of bombs started to whine down. The noise . . . starts high in pitch and slides down the scale. . . . And the longer it whines the closer it seems to get, until you are sure that when it does explode it will be at the back of your head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: The Anatomy of Fear | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

Slow, Big Shivers. "Another bomber roared overhead, quite low, and I saw the first string of flares splash into flame; it was dead ahead of me and it looked close enough to touch. I flopped back on the bottom of the trench and began to shake. The whine started again and I thought, 'They are going to get me this time. . . .' I tried to sink my head into my shoulders, turtle fashion, and I closed my eyes. The whine crept down the scale and I shook, not like shivering from cold but slower and bigger. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: The Anatomy of Fear | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...yowls near our house it just makes my hair stand plumb straight up on my head." The old man hoped the authorities would bring in dogs to track the cateymount down. "Dogs that aren't afeard. Our dogs is cowed. When they hears the cateymount they start to whine and tuck their tails between their legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: A Howlin' in the Holler | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...sopranos so that their voices would not change. At that time the best castrati were the most feted and prosperous singers of the period. Many connoisseurs preferred the castrati to the finest female sopranos, although a critic in London's famed Spectator once complained of "the shrill celestial whine of eunuchs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Irish Tenor | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

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