Word: screeched
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...screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest." But do we have a "screech owl?" Vasco McCoy...
Yard pigeons have it rough these days. First it was that owl. Now a large duck hawk has moved into the Memorial Hall tower, and a screech owl lives in Cambridge Common...
...change began with the phonograph. The machine which Edison invented in 1877 was an impractical toy which, as its needle scratched a cylinder of tin foil, made noises like a man strangling to death. The commercial "gramophones" which followed (colloquially called screech boxes) were not much better. But the early disc phonographs, which delivered both Caruso and Cohen on the Telephone, were too delightful to be resisted. The speed with which they became a national obsession was reflected by the financial statements of the Victor Talking Machine Co., which did $500 worth of business in 1901 and $12 million...
...little shipyards that line the coast of Nova Scotia, builders are busier than they have been since the days of wooden ships and iron men. Now, as 70 years ago, saws screech through oaken timbers and pine planking; middle-aged craftsmen, wielding adzes, cut keels so that they look as though they had been planed. U.S. yachtsmen and game fishermen set off the boom. They had discovered that Nova Scotians could still build stout, trim sailing craft, besides modern power boats-and build them cheap...
...Golden Man goes to the front . . . Marltown second . . . Diamond Dick third. ... In the backstretch now and Golden Man has opened a two-length lead." Suddenly George's voice rose to a hoarse screech: "They're going into the far turn and Golden Man is still two lengths ahead!" Listeners heard a strangled sound, then wild shouts: "Come on, Jimmy, ride him, Jimmy, ride...