Word: squealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...channels for frequency modulation (FM) broadcasting. On these, three types of programs would be broadcast: 1) uninterrupted classical music; 2) continuous popular music; 3) shopping news and educational programs. Subscribers would pay 5? a day ($18.25 per year) to listen. Nonsubscribers would be kept from listening by a "pig squeal" which would be broadcast along with the programs, "jamming" all sets but those of the Benton subscribers, whose radios would tune out this squeal by a special apparatus. Benton proposes to let other broadcasters use the attachment for a small royalty so he would not have a monopoly...
From the heights of my despair I shall tremulously dare, Courageously to kick and squeal...
...morning papers played the story straight. But the angle-grabbing afternoon papers twisted it to mean that LaGuardia was urging youngsters to squeal on their fathers. The tabloid News picked it up and wrote an editorial. The Mayor went purple. Over the air he denounced the papers for helping race-track bookies by printing racing news. He predicted that the press would probably continue to "belittle, ridicule and oppose" his antigambling campaign. In a letter to the News he wrote: "I am sorry you have been misled into believing that I asked boys to peach on their fathers...
...York World-Telegram with such gems as a story of a nudist camp (written stark naked on the scene), weather reports ("WEATHER NOTE: Bad for grandmothers"), an interview with Simone Simon. (Without a word he tickled her vigorously. When she protested but did not squeal, he said he was only testing a Hollywood report that she was ticklish.) His book, Low Man on a Totem Pole, based chiefly on risqué versions of whimsical features written for the New York World-Telegram, was a best-seller last spring...
Military advances are marked by the mile; diplomatic advances by the country. Germany's diplomatic march through Europe last week was faster than the British reconquest of Africa. With a tiny squeal of protest, Yugoslavia slipped sidewise into the Axis tent, leaving Greece in peril of being dragged there by the hair (see col. 2). Although Turkey made it clear that she would fight back if she were attacked, Turkey made it almost as clear that she would not fight for Greece...