Word: scream
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...tantrums are nothing new in kindergarten and first grade, but the behavior of a 6-year-old girl this fall at a school in Fort Worth, Texas, had even the most experienced staff members wanting to run for cover. Asked to put a toy away, the youngster began to scream. Told to calm down, she knocked over her desk and crawled under the teacher's desk, kicking it and dumping out the contents of the drawers. Then things really began to deteriorate. Still shrieking, the child stood up and began hurling books at her terrified classmates...
...Italian coast is just 10 hours away. But there's still no land in sight the following afternoon when the motor stutters and dies. The boatman tries a few times to restart it and a few of the men fiddle with the thing, but it's no use. Women scream that they are doomed. A young Somali named Ismail prays to Allah for their survival. By the next night, Abdi Salan is praying too. Late on the fifth day, the Egyptian boatman sees a ship pass in the distance, dives into the sea and swims frantically for it. He soon...
...bitter January evening in 2001, Shaka J. D. Bahadu, let his friends convince him to participate in Harvard’s celebrated stress reliever: primal scream...
...interior decorating and fashion aren’t the only elements of Gladden J. Pappin that scream conservative. Ideological differences between Pappin and the rest of the student body were brought into sharp relief in December of last year when he sent a letter to The Crimson, entitled “Secret Court Rightly Punished Immorality,” in which he denounced Harvard’s tolerance and support for homosexuals, about whom he wrote, “[their] activities are not merely immoral but perverted and unnatural.” With one letter to the editor, the floodgates...
Before running off early, Texan belle Jennifer N. Hawkins tells more face-in-the-snow tales, and Shaka J. Bahadu charms the crowd with accounts of first-year Primal Scream embarrassment. “I was real skinny, and self-conscious. And black, which meant that when my friends pushed me to the front, everyone knew who I was.” The relationship between his freshman performance and his current status as first class marshal remains up for interpretation...