Word: chirrup
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...SONDHI LIMTHONGKUL? When Thaksin's key opponent gets a call on his mobile phone there is no chirrup of birdsong or snatch of the William Tell Overture. Instead the phone emits a recording of his own voice shrieking, "Thaksin! Get Out!" Sondhi, 58, is a former media mogul who was hammered during the Asian financial crisis but managed to claw his way back into the black with help from a fellow magnate: ironically, Thaksin himself...
...cricket's chirrup...
...Nora continues to chirrup about like a gay lark, you feel anxiety whooshing through her chatter. The smile on her china doll face is somehow out of joint. You begin to see that she is clinging desperately to her innocence, (like an invalid making the best of a sorry confinement...
...Maya curer of seventy-two years and no teeth, bolstered for the sacrilege by many chill beers the cabdriver has put in him, awaits the couple. 343 chickadees and a pigeon chirrup away and 3 unfortunately die of heart failure when Girl and Alfred come snooping around their wicker cages...
...rather steep comedown-in the end he jumps off a cliff. John, a much wiser young squire, gets home to England, where all ends with a nice, bucolic chirrup: "The kingcups and the wild daffodils were out in the water meadows; from the dovecot came the sudden passion and stir of wings." And Elfrida, the girl John left behind him, "had grown tall; under the sun she showed satin-fair...