Word: squealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Terrible Eye. The committee's star witness was ailing Edward P. Terry, an erstwhile Bilbo secretary. Despite the terrible eye that Bilbo fixed on him from across the crowded Senate caucus room, Witness Terry began to squeal willingly...
...Royal Family and the Eisenhowers had hot scones and tea in the drawing room, and then the King led the way for a hike around the place. Dinner was at 8; grouse from the royal moors was seryed, and the guests dined to the squeal of the King's pipers. Everybody danced reels and flings that night in the castle ballroom, and Captain John danced with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Margaret got Ike's autograph before he left...
...quite understand each other. I wish to thank you mainly for the night you had me stand from dusk to dawn at attention, trying to make me squeal on my fellow comrades. That is the main reason I hate...
...about him. Vivian Leigh is an effective contrast as Cleopatra, the girlish queen. Flora Robson, as Ftatateeta, a weird combination of killer and nurse, handles herself with barbaric competence. Stewart Granger, who looks like the muscular product of a California beach, manages adequately to make about half the audience squeal ecstatically...
...made the retailer squeal. Ordinarily, he works on a 25% mark-up on low-priced radios. Under the present policy of making him absorb part of the increase, he can get only about 10%. But most radiomen hope for an unprecedented sales volume to make up the difference. Estimates on the number of radios which will be available by Christmas range all the way from 600,000 to 3,000,000 sets. Best guess: probably below a million. The industry grumbled that this will be far less than the demand, blamed OPA for holding out too long on its ceiling...