11. For a black man in the South to whistle at a white woman was to risk being strung up. 12. In a rare display of disrespect, Mexicans disapprovingly whistled at Zedillo when he descended into the square from the National Palace to shake hands in the crowd. 13. Maybe I should have stood up on the third floor and whistled down at them. 14. Once, when we were driving past Fort Devens, one of the guards whistled at our car. 15. The boy was Emmett Louis Till, who had supposedly whistled at a white girl. 16. This was, after all, the state where Emmett Till was lynched five years earlier for allegedly whistling at a white girl. 17. Today, as I look out at the bare trees shivering in the wind, my demons whistle at the window that I am an orphan. 18. What is truly zany about the move to militarize space is that it resembles a perfectly designed boomerang that will come whistling back at the country that launched it. 19. When the crowed hooted and whistled at him, Eagleson responded with an obscene gesture. 20. Others jeered and whistled at troops. |