Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through newly repaired windows came faint, peaceful sounds from the wrecked city. But as witnesses talked from the stand, the nerves of many a spectator ached for the sound of a scream...
Instead, the audience of three or four hundred sat with mouths agape, listening. Mostly the audience was in its thirties: they didn't swoon and scream, like bobby-soxers; they talked about the art of it. Many had the conspiratorial smugness of insiders...
...tries to get the police again, hears the killers in the house. Listeners suddenly hear a shrill, terrifying scream. Then a second of complete silence-so intense that it can almost be heard. Finally, the police get through on the phone, and a killer, having done his job, answers: "Sorry, wrong number...
...hallucinations grew worse on Wednesday and Thursday, and every few minutes another man would scream of his vision and die. Not until late Thursday morning, three and a half days after the ship sank, were the men discovered-accidentally, by a plane on a routine flight. When surface ships picked them up that night, the survivors learned they had not yet been reported overdue...
...know of your race riots, both north and south, 'the underhanded persecution of the Negro and the Jew. At least we Germans were not hypocritical. We did not hide our acts and persecutions under the cloak of your supposed democracy. Is all this not true? Can you truthfully scream 'propaganda...