Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major Andrew Kennedy of British Intelligence. At midnight, after dining with a few friends, she went back to her hotel. She had just started upstairs when she heard her name called. She turned around, began talking to the man who addressed her. Then the night porter heard her scream: "Get him off me!" The porter and two other men rushed up, but too late. There on the floor at the foot of the stairs lay Christine Skarbek, heroine, a wooden-handled knife thrust in her chest...
...first, Eisenhower headquarters kept a lofty silence. Then, as the wind began to scream outside, an Ike lieutenant blasted back. Said he: "The vicious and false charges . . . show the same desperation and lack of good morals as the Texas convention scandal . . . The Eisenhower national headquarters is not paying any delegate expenses. Many delegates have expressed a desire to meet with General Eisenhower, and they have been invited to meet with him. In accordance with usual custom, their expenses will be paid either by themselves or by. local committees, clubs or individuals...
...everybody can own a car! Come and get 'em while we got 'em!" blared a Manhattan newspaper ad last week. In Chicago, Hotpoint advised its appliance dealers: "Be first to advertise and promote a no-down and easy-payment plan . . . Change your ads to scream 'NO DOWN PAYMENT.' " One Los Angeles merchant was so carried away that he posted a "NO CASH DOWN- SIX MONTHS To PAY" sign over some $3.95 shirts...
...jumper, who had smilingly lighted a cigarette when a judge gave him 20 years, had to be dragged from his cell. Jose Colombres, a six-foot, pock-marked murderer, knelt tearfully and begged to stay. When a convicted murderess' name was called, she split the air with a scream, "Virgin of Guadalupe, have mercy...
...gear and the ejection seat, the purpose of the G-suit is to match the pilot to his high-speed environment. The fact is that the fragile human frame is fast becoming the structural limit to the speed of aircraft. Aircraft designers are already talking of interceptors that will scream through the upper atmosphere at more than 1,500 miles an hour. They are sure that one of their toughest problems will be to beef up the pilot so that he can stand the trip...