Word: peals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applause. Franciszek Cardinal Macharski of Cracow wearing crimson biretta and robes: hearty applause. Then Union Leader Lech Walesa, the improbable hero of last summer's strikes, bundled in his customary duffel coat: tumultuous applause. After a minute of silence, the city's church bells began to peal, and ship sirens wailed from the port, a keening cry that sent shivers through the crowd. The names of those who died at Gdansk and Gdynia in 1970 were read aloud, with the-workers shouting back after each one: "Yes, he is still among us!" Walesa lit a memorial flame, which...
Despite the shrill peal of air-raid sirens regularly echoing throughout the port of Basra early last week, the absence of air strikes for four days had nurtured a languid mood among the Iraqi soldiers and civilians in the town. Troops from the front lines recounted boastful tales of Iranians fleeing before their artillery barrages, while the television pumped out scenes of Iraqi attacks to martial music and announced the claim that Ahwaz, 45 miles into Iran, had just been captured. "Maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day," boasted Captain Abu Rashid, beaming proudly in his black beret and crisp green...
...sweat over. "The big ages are sixteen, thirty-three-and-a-third, forty-five and seventy-eight," he laughs. "Turning thirty -- everybody thinks about it, I guess. But it don't bother me, I feel pretty healthy." At which point Waits lets loose a painful succession of coughs, a peal of mucus swirling in the lungs...
Once again he let the thunder peal...