Word: screams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers; 100,000,000 "pieces of literature"; a big radio program with stage and screen stars; Alfred E. Smith, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Glenn Frank, Walter Chrysler, Senator La Follette, General Harbord, William Green, General Atterbury, Lewis A. Johnson (of the American Legion)-all teaching the Blue Eagle to scream...
...gallon deluge widened out to more than a mile. Cherry Creek was a battering-ram of water, boiling over its embankments. At 7 o'clock it burst into Denver, ripped out six bridges in swift succession. Just ahead of it were police cars and fire engines, sirens a-scream, racing the residents to safety. A stampede of 5,000, many clad in night clothes, fled from the lowlands. In the yard back of his house, Tom Casey, So, fell into a hole, could not pull himself out. The torrent surged over him, stilling his screams. Power lines were destroyed...
...through the water . . . going at the swimming man, and there was a scream and he was dragged down. We drew ourselves up further on the keel...
...Balancing Wallendas still bring sweat from the most jaded pores, are themselves visibly relieved at the conclusion of each performance. Year and a half ago their impossible, top-heavy, quivering pyramid on the high wire brought a scream of horror from 3,000 spectators in Europe when everything toppled. Balancing poles and a chair crashed down into the arena. Two Wallenda brothers caught the foundation wire neatly. Another Brother Wallenda caught it with one hand, caught his sister Dorothy, who was falling clear of any possible support, with his legs, squeezed her in a scissors till the ground crew brought...
...residential section of Long Beach, Calif, many citizens are clustered about the radio. 'The TIME' broadcast is about to end. A deafening, ominous thunder drowns the voice of the announcer! The earth rocks, heaves and rolls with violent force! (voices scream, 'EARTHQUAKE...