Word: squealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good. Mechanically, there are excellent moments: the initial crash, the soft, strangling sound of the plane as it founders, the angelic strangeness and beauty of the rescuing plane-a machine apotheosized. Other bits are finely conceived: the aching silence as a gull circles the starved men, its ghastly squeal when it is caught. And there are earnest, dignified performances, notably those of MacMurray, Richard Conte and Lloyd Nolan. Yet it is never quite possible to believe that the oceanic anguish is more than a stone's throw from all the food and drink Hollywood can provide...
...December England-to-Paris flight, but the band continues to bear his name.) Desmond's G.I. job, which he is apparently doing sensationally well, is singing. His I'll Be Seeing You and Long Ago and Far Away, in phonetic French, makes young Parisians jump up & down, squeal "Bravo . . . Bis! Bis!" and clutter up the stage-door alley for a closer look at Le Crémair...
...They dragged him into the shower place and Red gave a couple of little boys some socks so they wouldn't squeal. Then the rest of the boys started fooling around, wrestling, boxing and stuff like that...
Subscription Radio (subscribers pay 5? a day to rent a gadget for their radios; with it, they can tune in a station which carries no commercials; without it, anyone tuning the same frequency hears only a "pig squeal"). FCC has not made up its mind whether this is "technically feasible" now; meanwhile, no frequencies...
...neuralgia, the sores or the itch. By comparing the first day's pain intensity with successive days' recordings, the progress of the complaint can be charted. According to last week's Modern Medicine, Dr. Gluzek (who apparently thinks that all pigs caught under a gate squeal equally loud) has made 16,000 readings, finds his dolorimeter accurate in 97% of the pains measured...