Word: screaming
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Willkie's voice was vigorous but tired. The audience had gone ready to scream, shout, laugh, cry, cheer, boo, wave their little U. S. flags. But the Candidate wouldn't pull out the stops, hurried on to his next sentence even as applause broke out, slurred his words so that their sense was sometimes lost. Once again the speech, with its simple, strong points read better than it sounded...
...months he had been on the lam, sleeping in flophouses, always moving. He had no tie. His hat & coat were gone. When he came to a church he went inside. It was dark there, too. He was still scared, too scared. In the empty, still church he began to scream...
...Gang kids. In & out of the U. S. frequently, Delaney, always reticent about his personal life, was something of a mystery man even to his close friends. In 1934 he published his first book, The Lady By Degrees, followed it next year with The Charm Girl, advertised as the "scream-line correspondence of a radio charmer and her girl friend." Typical sentence: "Remember darling, you can't always judge a man by how he looks as by where he glances, which sometimes makes me long for the good old days when Fanny was a girl's name...
...foreign attaché looking at the new U. S. Army this spring will recognize it for what it is: a standing expeditionary force, designed for prompt, conscript expansion into an expeditionary Army of 750,000 active troops, 250,000 reserves. When Congressmen, scared by World War II, scream for underground bombing shelters in the interior U. S., for permanent anti-aircraft installations at Kansas City and points west, the General Staff in Washington shudders. Remembering that the U. S. Army has fought in China, Siberia, Central America, France, the General Staff has planned an outfit ready to be packed...
Under the shells and bombs that crashed into Viipuri last week Finnish men and women worked day & night. Brawny peasant women toiled side by side with boys and old men, burrowing trenches, throwing up breastworks, putting together makeshift pillboxes. Beneath the high-pitched scream of shells in air and the sharp thunder of their explosions sounded the dull bass background music of the battle south of the city. Day by day it came nearer...