Word: howlings
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...shot from the catapults, then the big, rumbling Skyraider dive bombers; and after the propeller-driven craft were well away, the jets were brought forward. Started by motors hustled about the deck by tiny yellow jeeps, the Grumman Panthers shrieked protest, then raised their voices to a horrible, thundering howl as they shot from the catapults...
Last fall, in a move toward a negotiated peace, the academicians agreed to let the Tate take a hand in the picking. The first purchase under the new system, a tasteful portrait by Augustus John, seemed to satisfy everybody. With the second, the conservatives set up a howl...
...away look came into Yermakov's eyes as he explained, "I went down there over spring vacation and met some of them." Then he turned his head away and let out a low howl. Becoming serious again, he added, "But this is only until I earn enough money to come back to Harvard to stay...
...modern times have brought forth the maddened howl of the U.S. legislator as dramatically as has Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Congressmen, almost to a man, regard the Secretary as a cat, and feel an unholy urge to chase him up a tree. Some of the congressional baying he has aroused is rooted deep in partisan politics. But the Secretary's unblinking disregard for opinion on Capitol Hill, and his back-arching criticism of his tormentors, has at times driven even Democrats to tooth-clicking leaps...
...through the curse of General, commands in the mad wisdom of the judgment speech, "When I do stare, see how the subject quakes." He is calamitous, never pathetic, when he asks, "Is man no more than this?" or when, with dead Cornelia in his arms, he orders the court, "Howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!" Devlin's performance is virtuosi, raging through extremity of nature, enormity...