Word: squealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small microphone that led to a miniature wire recorder in a shoulder holster. Since then the reporters have been checking their quotes with Blair's machine, and even the Nixon staff has regularly consulted "dicky bird," as the newsmen dubbed the gadget because of the chirping squeal when it is run to replay a speech...
...Count Foucou de Gines. Europe's decaying aristocracy has produced some exotic late blooms, and in its gaudiest days Vichy has seen the most flamboyant of them. But Count Foucou was something special. He arrived in his bright new British Aston-Martin sports car with a squeal of tires and a flourish of gravel, flanked by a pretty blonde wife and a secretary. He wanted to buy a chateau, he said, and the dazzled real-estate agent showed him the historic Chateau de Theillat. The count took one look, declared he would take it, and with an aristocratic flourish...
...loud squeal of brakes, which ended in a car-crash on Memorial Drive outside of Winthrop House at 12 p.m. last night, drew a crowd of some 150 students. The accident was not serious, but a riotous humor developed as the crowd began to stop traffic on the Drive...
...years since Composer Berlioz made his observations there has been little change in the perilous artistic life of the operatic tenor. His concern about whether the next high C will crack and degenerate into an ignominious squeal-or whether his voice will simply refuse to make any sound at all-keeps him in a constant state of apprehension. Moreover, the whole business of singing at the top of his voice and range presents an additional physical hazard. The fact that good tenors are always in short supply aggravates the other problems by encouraging the poor fellow to sing more than...
...King of Swing is playing for dancing once again, and he is bucking a trend he himself started 20 years ago when Benny and his free-swinging sidemen had youngsters clustering around the bandstand to squeal and applaud their riffs and licks. Swing was the thing, and in 1938 Benny Goodman set an altitude record for jazzmen with his concert at Carnegie Hall...