Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late afternoon last week, the oil exploration boat Submarex rode gently in the Pacific swell near the Southern California town of Redondo Beach. Below the water's surface. Professional Diver Eldon W. Smith, 31, began his ascent. Suddenly, the men on the Submarex intercom heard a scream tear from inside Smith's helmet: the diver, apparently rising too fast, was struck with caisson disease-knifelike jabs of pain caused by the accumulation of deadly nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream-the "bends...
...Classes (where "the Astors and Vanderbilts always voted for each other in class elections"), to the Brearley School and to Garrison Forest, where her father wound up in a necking session with one of her schoolmates. ''You look like a clown riding to a circus!" Mummy would scream if Diana hit an off note in her dress. "Sometimes," says Diana, recalling her mother's Grade Square duplex, "I was brought down to be introduced to Miss Gertrude Stein or Mr. Michael Arlen or Miss Tallulah Bankhead or the Duke of Alba." Barrymore relations showed up. too. "Aunt...
More than Speed. On the track the other drivers settled stoically to their work. Steadily, the high, whining scream of a big (4.5 liters) bright red Maserati moved out in front of the pack. Handled by World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio and France's Jean Behra, a pair of extraordinarily delicate car conservers, the 400-h.p. Maserati was in fact taking it easy. No one knew better than Fangio and Behra that speed alone is not enough on Sebring's demanding course; the trick is to keep a car going all the way to the finish...
Says WGBH's mild-mannered General Manager Parker Wheatley: "We are doing what commercial TV does not do. We don't insult people's intelligence and we don't scream at them. We try to govern ourselves by our three Rs: respect for the viewer, respect for the performer, and respect for the material itself...
...suddenly cried out in frantic, shattered tones: 'Mother! Oh Mother! Don't make me! Don't! Don't! I can't do it. I can't.' Seizing her head at the temples with both hands, she began a banshee's scream...