Word: screamings
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...stop it, do stop it, Bonaparte." Josephine's maid, Mlle. Avrillon, recalled, "We could estimate the degree of his good humor by how much he hurt us. One day when he was obviously better pleased than usual, he pinched my cheek so hard I could not repress a scream...
...years later, as Togliatti was leaving Rome's Chamber of Deputies, pistol shots cracked in the heavy July air, and Togliatti fell wounded. With a scream of horror, a woman darted forward and flung herself protectively over Togliatti's body. The madman assassin, betrayed perhaps by chivalrous instincts, hesitated to shoot again, and was caught. The comrade with the pretty legs had saved Togliatti's life...
Brigadier General Luis Ordóñez delayed his abductors 20 minutes with a tongue-lashing but was forced to go along anyway. The capture of tough Major General Deogracias Fonseca was noisy; a guard managed to scream: "Save yourself, General! They've come to kill you!" Struggling, Fonseca was hauled off bodily to his pickup truck...
...cleverly guided by Jockey Ismael Valenzuela, a last-minute substitute for injured Willie Hartack, saved ground and came around the muddy track hugging the rail. Then, at the three-eighths pole, Silky turned it on. He exploded past two horses, and the crowd came alive. But the high rising scream stopped short. Silky suddenly ran out of steam-and the race was still up front, where Jewel's Reward was faltering but Tim Tarn was steadily closing on Lincoln Road. At the wire, it was Tim Tarn by half a length. Lincoln Road, hanging on gamely, was second. Noureddin...
...celebrated the rites of spring by making the traditional round of Buddhist temples and the tombs of their ancestors, thousands of Japanese "lowteen" girls in braids, pony tails, hula shirts, black slacks and white sweaters celebrated in their own way: jamming Tokyo's Kyoritsu Theater to swoon and scream at the pelvic pulsations of guitar-twanging "rockabilly" idols. Said a dazed stagehand last week, trying to describe the massed sound of their screams: "Like an auto suddenly braked at 100 m.p.h...