Word: yelps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Golden Boy of the Thirties, the man who brought a fresh, now and vibrant voice to the theater, a voice that spoke out for the underprivileged. But the author of "Waiting for Lefty," "Awake and Sing," and "Golden Boy" remained in Hollywood, writing scenarios and letting out an occasional yelp about "every motion-picture being cut on the stone floor of a Wall Street bank." This was paltry assurance of his continued concern with the proletariat...
Congressman Albert Engel of Michigan, taking one look at this onslaught on the U.S. Treasury, another look at the economically bankrupt, politically epileptic country of Greece, and another look at Britain, uttered the first angry yelp. Why, Engel demanded, should the U.S. pull "Britain's fat out of the fire...
Like a boy with a bad report card, many a corporation was none too eager to carry home to stockholders the bad news of earnings for the first half of 1946. But last week, as third-quarter reports came out, there was many a yelp of joy. There were still some failures; but there were also a surprisingly large number of "Es" for excellent...
...week's end the British had cleared about a third of Athens. But from Epirus in the northwest came a sudden yelp of alarm. General Napoleon Zervas, barrel-chested commander of the pro-Government EDES guerrillas, protested that ELAS forces had overrun eight villages in his territory. Next day he abandoned his headquarters at Ioannina...
...sample record made in Richmond, Va., the unmistakable sounds of home set the scene-the chimes of St. Paul's church, the yelp of a newsboy, the tapping of tall heels, the clack-clack-clack of traffic over the Ninth Street Bridge. Neatly interlarded are remembered voices telling of remembered places, and quiet-spoken promises...