Word: yelps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meant $16,000,000,000 in new revenue (plus the $35,000,000,000 which present taxes will produce), from a citizenry which is just now learning what the 5% victory tax does to paychecks and will yelp with pain at the income taxes due in March. It meant compulsory savings, which sensitive Henry Morgenthau considers unAmerican. It might even mean sales taxes, which social-minded Henry Morgenthau hates even to talk about. It meant, in short, that the unhappy Secretary would have to find some way of wheedling, squeezing, talking or forcing into the Treasury an amount that...
...called, "Number 56? Please follow me." He was led to a desk where a nurse took his temperature and pulse, then swabbed his finger with alcohol. Producing a lethal little instrument resembling a fountain pen, she placed it on his finger and released the catch. Vag gave a little yelp as a pinpoint suddenly pierced his skin, and the nurse squeezed out a little blood onto a plate. "Thank you," she said, "and now would you go over there to drink some orange juice?" Vag complied willingly, and having downed it, waited for the summons...
Rumania's loudest yelp came from Premier Ion ("Red Dog") Antonescu's nephew Mihai, who is Acting Foreign Minister. "During the last year," he said, "northern Transylvania [the part Hitler gave to Hungary], cradle of our country, was submitted to a regime of oppression and humiliation. . . . Its population has been jeered and tortured, its churches destroyed. Its land was taken away from the peasants. . . . We have the duty . . . to declare that such a state of affairs can no longer continue...
...Basenji, a breed recently recognized by the English Kennel Club, are dogs (which cannot bark nor yelp, but only softly "grooo") used in the African Congo for tracking game...
Handsome, brusque James S. Knowlson, chairman and president of Stewart-Warner Corp. is a sensitive man. For weeks he listened to politicians and labor leaders yelp that big business was holding back defense by refusing to cooperate with the Government, asking huge profits. Last week he got sore, lashed out a snappy (17-paragraph, onepage) letter of explanation to his employes. Said he: "There has been a lot of bunk about industry. . . . If your friends ask you what your company has done so far, you can tell them this: Your company has bid (on a competitive basis) on ten millions...