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Word: screams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lift the submarine from its grave, tugging hard to unstick the hull from the seabed. It was a nerve-racking process. The submarine's dead weight of at least 4,000 tons taxed even Glomar Explorer's powerful winches. The ship shuddered and reverberated with the protesting scream of straining electric engines and the scrape of taut steel cables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: The Great Submarine Snatch | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...wanderlust surges relentlessly through the veins. Like Shelley we yearn to be done with frozen leaves and turbulent skies and shout forth a panegyric to the incipient balmy days of a more gentle season. But alas, the streets bear the scars of the ravages of snowstorms, the trees scream in their gnarled bareness, the clouds continue to obscure the fulgent sunshine. Cambridge does not easily shake the remnants of its most brutal season. We become like Gide's immoralist, neglecting our careers, our families, and our lovers in a hedonistic hearkening to a brighter clime and sunnier shore, where mind...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: The Wrongs of Spring | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

Robert Banker '56, who has organized the club's boxing night since it started in 1968, said "I guest the fun is seeing many of these men come and yell and scream...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Smith Tops Alicea in Harvard Club Tilt | 3/26/1975 | See Source »

...airport, which is hit almost daily, American-owned DC-8s scream down the runway hourly and trundle up in front of the small passenger terminal, where they disgorge up to 45 tons of ammunition each. Across the field, camouflaged American C-130s buzz in and out every 20 minutes with loads of ammunition, while little Cambodian air force two-seater T-28s dart in and out from their bombing runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: The War: Immediate, Palpable, Personal | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

Women can't scream with pain even when they do feel it, for the little power they have is so tenuous. Although this is changing--often in confusing ways, women still get a sense of themselves and of their power over other people--especially men--in the same way a 35 year old virgin named Ethel Blake does...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: A Room of One's Own | 2/20/1975 | See Source »

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