Word: squeaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...autobiographical novel published in England just before Sylvia's death, is described as a metallic New England schoolmarm. Little Sylvia tried to be Daddy's darling. At three she knew the Latin names of hundreds of insects-whenever a bumblebee bumbled by, the pretty little poppet would squeak: "Bombus bimaculatus...
...laughed loud and long when I read about unruly audiences [Jan. 21]. But there is one sound left unmentioned-that of a nursing baby. I listened to that through a Rubinstein concert. First the baby chewed on a rubber pacifier-that has a kind of squeak. Then there was a new sound and so help me, the mother was nursing her baby. Rubinstein looked right over the keyboard at us, and played sublimely on-possibly because he had become a father not too many years before...
After centuries as the playing field of England's budding politicians, Oxford University understandably plays its own games of academic politics in mock-heroic earnest. Harold Macmillan twice won the prime-ministership by wider margins than his 1960 squeak into Oxford's chancellorship. "There's nothing most dons [professors] like better than a good bitchy election," observed the Sunday Times. Last week the bitchiest one in years had Oxford-and the nation -twittering as the port was passed...
...Squeak. The pressures of domestic and foreign opinion combined to make Johnson's decision to resume bombing one of the most arduous he has had to face in his 26-month presidency. The strain was evident-though with as consummate a showman as Lyndon Johnson it was often difficult to tell to what extent his gloomy, remote bearing was assumed for political effect. He bolted from receptions unwontedly early. After a dinner at which Chief Justice Earl Warren was one of his guests of honor, the President was in such a hurry to return to his deliberations over Viet...
...supremely aware that for all the advice he received, the final choice and the responsibility for its consequences were his alone. "One man has the decision to make," said a high-ranking U.S. official in Saigon, "and until he does, no one here is going to utter a squeak. The ultimate implications of that decision are simply...