Word: screamings
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...metal doors of the mausoleum. At the first stroke of noon by the Kremlin clock, a wave of sound-artillery salvos, clanging chimes, blasting factory whistles-ranged across Soviet Russia and its satellites. Thus was the conqueror laid to rest-not with a prayer, but with whistle's scream and cannon's roar...
...mournful tolling of churchbells and the scream of sirens awakened Netherlanders at 4 a.m.; it was already too late. Waves chewed like bulldozers at the historic dikes of Holland, breaking through in at least 70 places, to reclaim what centuries of Dutch ingenuity had taken from the sea. It was perhaps the worst Dutch disaster since St. Elizabeth's Flood in the Middle Ages, in which thousands lost their lives. In the Frisian Islands to the north, the flood crest went as high as 30 feet. Floodwater lapped at the outlying parts of Rotterdam (pop. 650,000) and poured...
...have "a sense" for fakes. One of the greatest connoisseurs he ever met was an uneducated genius who made his living running a brothel. In his spare time he hung questionable paintings on a clothesline in the house, invited Pupil Schoeller to find the fakes. "What!" he would scream when Schoeller made a mistake. "Look here. The whole corner has been painted in-and clumsily at that. See the different false shades?" Schoeller would look again, and sure enough, the entire aura of the painting seemed to change...
When the whistle broke into a scream...
...child with ulcers is much like an adult with ulcers: the brighter-than-average, tense type, who bottles up his emotions. (Dr. Girdany's patients did not kick and scream the way many kids would if offered a "barium breakfast," but suffered in silence.) Such children may carry their ulcer troubles into adult life -so that tense little tykes grow into big, tense tycoons...