Word: screech
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...When he hit the ground and his senses began to return he sent a quick, terrified look about the room. Yet everything looked the same. The roof was still in place, and the delivery desk still retained its immemorial position. He sank limply back in his seat. A second screech, louder than the first, struck him between the eyeballs. As the echoes died away in the furthermost corners of the old building he could hear the dust dropping back on the books and his separated vertebrae clicking back into their places...
That scared Forney. He stepped on the gas, ignored the red lights, dodged cross-town traffic as best he could, hoped no policeman would stop him. None did. The man told Forney to take him to the Psychiatric Division. When they pulled up to the door with a screech, the meter read 95?. The man struggled with his wallet...
Suddenly above the voice rose a banshee screech-air-raid alarm. The crowds shuddered, broke, ran for air-raid cellars. In Hamburg the radio loudspeakers faltered and fell silent. But in Berlin and elsewhere, the harsh Prussian voice spoke on like a trump of doom, echoing through deserted streets and beer halls...
Included in the Audubon exhibit are original sketches by the naturalist-artist of the cat-bird, screech, owl the Carolina parrot (now extinct), belted kingfisher, white-throated sparrow, and chuck-will's widow. Also shown are four volumes of the huge "Birds of America" published in the years 1827 to 1838. There are original letters written by Audubon, one of them carrying his personal seal, marked by a wild turkey and the motto "America My Country...
Braced as they were for Composer McDonald's shocker, the audience found the neoprimitive chorus and agitated orchestra less terrible than they had anticipated. Aside from a screech or two, Composer McDonald had concocted his score with ingredients that recalled the work of several old masters. Press pundits, long critical of McDonald's lack of originality, loudly assured their readers that the title of his work, Lament for the Stolen, did not refer to McDonald's familiar-sounding themes and harmonies...