Word: brays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Sir Denys Bray, British Foreign Secretary, in 1923: "Come what may, civilization must be made to penetrate these inaccessible mountains or we must admit that there is no solution to the Waziristan problem...
...Malaya, produced the world's most inhuman industry and its most recalcitrant labor union, but had filled U.S. streets with so many automobiles that it was almost impossible to drive one. In some big cities, vast traffic jams never really got untangled from dawn to midnight; the bray of horns, the stink of exhaust fumes, and the crunch of crumpling metal eddied up from them as insistently as the vaporous roar of Niagara...
...yellow, there showed occasionally a horse's teeth or glaring eyes, or a frostbitten or port-nipped military face, conjured up out of the gloom and darkness, like a materialization at a seance. . . . Men shouted, sergeants commanded; bugles every now and then indulged in a brazen, idiot bray...
Evening Out. In Bell Gardens, Calif., Joseph Bray, 37, left his wife and 13 children and eloped with the 16-year-old baby sitter...
Fourteen people died in the leaping fire on the desert not far from the river Euphrates, near Meyadine, in Syria. Arabs helped Stewardess Bray and 21 other survivors of the wreck of the Pan American World Airways Eclipse, a four-motored Constellation that had left Karachi, India, a few hours before, bound for La-Guardia Field, New York...