Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rdenas returned to the Government as Minister of National Defense when Mexico entered the war. His revolutionary, agrarian reforms have been modified under Avila Camacho, but in the main they survive. Busy with war work, Cárdenas maintains his mystical quiet, seems unperturbed when his leftist supporters scream that some of his pet projects have been butchered...
...your fingers. . . . The more one thinks about it, the worse it becomes. He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor's sentence, no nursing home, no operating theater, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous liberation. One moment it seemed to be all our world; the scream of bombs, the fall of houses ... the heart cold with horrors, the brain reeling, the legs aching; next moment all this was gone, gone like a bad dream, never again to be of any account...
...terrible scream rent the air and a concussion shook the earth. One shell after another whistled by, exploded with an ear-bursting crack on the slope...
Louder in the ears of the Italians was the ominous roar and rattle of the Allied military machine in North Africa. Virtually splitting their eardrums were the scream and crump of "blockbuster" bombs devastating the great industrial cities of Turin, Genoa, Milan...
...strikes the tops of the tall mill chimneys at Ahmadabad, India's leading textile city, a hundred factory whistles shriek and scream the call to work. But there is no response. Doors remain closed and the streets empty. The mills remain idle, as they have been since August 9, the day Gandhi was arrested...