Word: squealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your story [Sept. 15] on Quiz Contestant Herbert Stempel's accusations and Producer Dan Enright's defense of Twenty One: what really cooks me is the sort of slob who would squeal on Santa after taking a bagful of presents...
...conclusion that virtually any man's mind, if it cracks, will follow one of the behavior patterns that Pavlov thought he saw in dogs. At first, says Sargant, the mind seems to equalize all stimuli and reacts with the same intensity to a bomb attack or the squeal of a mouse. Second, it may go into a "paradoxical phase," and respond more vigorously to weak, unimportant stimuli than to strong ones. Finally, in what Pavlov called the "ultraparadoxical" phase, everything is upside down-a man who has been hounded mercilessly day and night by a relentless police interrogator...
Cranks (by John Cranko; music by John Addison) is a pint-sized English revue with a Jeroboam's worth of frills. Three men and a girl squeal or kneel or sit with their backs to the audience, climb things while they rhyme things, weave about or dance or contort while singing ballads or blues. In a welter of shifting lights, one revue number slithers into the next while the performers act as their own stagehands...
...confident in its aloneness, all but oblivious to the black Pacific four miles below. It was 3:20 a.m., and inside the cabin, each of the 31 passengers sought sleep according to his station-first-class passengers in berths, tourist passengers scrunched up in reclining seats. Suddenly a shrieking squeal drowned the silence, and the airplane swooped roughly. The passengers bolted awake. "Ladies and gentlemen," crackled the cabin loudspeaker, "this is Captain Ogg. We have an emergency. Our No.1 engine is uncontrolled. A ditching at sea is likely. We have a Coast Guard cutter nearby that is able to render...
...appearance at the Royal Festival Hall was sold out three hours after tickets went on sale, was picketed by a gang of students who professed to be jazz and classics lovers, and roused the audience to a reaction that the Manchester Guardian described as "an unnerving squeal, like 40,000 Persian cats having their tails trodden on simultaneously...