Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under Gallegos, the party maintained its headlong drive for reform. A.D. Congressmen railroaded measures through Congress. Whenever there was opposition, A.D. masses, usually led by left-wingers, would jam the Plaza El Silencio and scream hatred at their enemies. By the end of 1948, when rumors began circulating that A.D. was planning to replace the army with a "peasants' militia," Pérez Jiménez and his brother officers rebelled. They cut down A.D. in mid-reform, arrested Gallegos, hounded Betancourt into exile, and began a new and bloody military dictatorship...
...suburb of the placid city of Geneva, Mme. Marie Zumbach returned home one spring evening in 1958 from a weekly parish meeting. As she entered the back door, she heard her husband Charles scream for help. Four shots rang out, and a man came running toward her, chased her out into the garden and shot her down. The attacker returned to the house, savagely and repeatedly stabbed the dying Charles Zumbach, then mounted his bicycle and pedaled away into the night...
...Singer Frankie Avalon, 19, said his guardian needed approval to spend $12,373 from the kid's estate for assorted expenses. The inimitable Fabian, 16, needed $38,392. It costs a lot of wampum to be Fabian, his guardian explained. He can't go to school (girls scream and wail as he walks down the corridors), so he has to pay two private tutors $10 an hour. Moreover, the Fab is taking singing lessons that are worth like 60 years of analyst's fees...
...ground-floor room, the pimp will lower a rope to which the prostitute must fasten the money she has earned. One madam, named Aunt Miep. would get outraged if she heard a girl wasting time talking to a client, and would stamp her crippled leg on the floor and scream: "Get to work...
Most of their struggles are internal: soundless voices scream for help while faces keep smiling gamely. But Author Gordimer can describe the outer world as evocatively as the inner chaos of man. A slight story, The Bridegroom, comes alive in its loving account of a night on the Kalahari Desert, a vast stretch of grey sand, thorn bushes and cratered earth, under a "spiky spread of cold stars." In The Gentle Art, she neatly combines her love of the African land with her often shocked observation of its inhabitants. It deals with another night under the cold stars, this time...