squeak

When Cynthia Ruiz turns on her kitchen faucet, she hears a slight squeak before cloudy fluid bursts out of the spout.

They embraced risk and played to win big rather than striving not to offend and hoping to squeak by.

One can hear every squeak of the shoes, every jeer from the loudmouths, every direction from the coaches.

There was a near squeak though.

The politicians who facilitated Hitler’s appointment as chancellor argued that Hitler would be boxed in so tight that he would “squeak.”