Word: squealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...male voices were making a lot of noise-and considerable money (next year they will take in close to $1,000,000). All six of these crooners had one or more things in common: rumply hair, wistful smiles and the languid air that makes some bobby-soxers want to squeal. As a group they were not necessarily the most promising singers.* But they were fairly typical of scores of eager aspirants to the crown of Crosby, the lesser diadem of Sinatra-or even the rich, purple mantles of Perry Como and Dick Haymes...
Something for the Girls. Above all other sounds came the penetrating squeal of indignant women. No female was too young or too old to be considered a target. Unwary old ladies were conked by water bags. Until the police called a halt, hundreds of women were rumped by electrified canes and battery-powered "jump boxes"-instruments which made them leap like gazelles. Thousands of women-even the tarts who gathered expectantly near hotel exits-were soaked by the Legion's merciless squirt guns, by a truck-mounted spray machine, and even, at times, by streams from the jugs which...
...Ludwig Bemelmans' third whimsical novel. Moses Fable was the fleshy, flashy chief of Hollywood's Olympia Studios. Bemelmans (Hotel Splendide, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You) gets more out of a pig than Swift and Armour (they miss the whimsy as well as the squeal). Dirty Eddie becomes a $5,000-a-week movie star who earns himself swill-pails of fan mail...
...meat-packing industry brags that it uses all of a pig but the squeal. The lumber industry is different. It is so wasteful that a conservationist once growled: "They use the squeal and throw away the pig." No more than a third of a felled tree becomes lumber. The rest is left in the forest or is wasted at the sawmills...
...construction costs were closing in on them. In Atlanta, teen-agers who possessed juiced-up cars had developed a process known as "scratching." They started the car in reverse, whipped backwards in a tight semicircle, then slammed the gears into low and roared off with a squeal of tires and a shower of dust...