Word: screeching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roman Catholic priest march around his monster, nearly drowning it in holy water, and assure the parents that the Blessed Virgin "will make it all right." He has a kindly old grandmother come on stage in the middle of an indecent episode between mother and child and screech at the top of her lungs: "My grandson is better because it has two heads, my grandson is better because it has two heads," and so forth. Finally, he gives us a huge funeral procession, in which the child's corpse is paraded around in an American flag...
...orders: "Get used to the field mice, screech owls, coyotes and katydids." Searching Their Faces. Apart from his performance, his brusque manner and salty language has endeared him to the corps. An Indiana farm boy who took a math major at DePauw University and went directly into the Marines from ROTC, Shoup earned a Congressional Medal of Honor by directing the 2nd Marine Division in its bloody, 76-hour assault on Tarawa, despite a badly wounded leg. Terse and tough, he constantly urges his commanders to know their men better. He asks them: "Do you search the faces of your...
...Even Close. Last week, as 2,569 dogs of 116 varieties descended on Manhattan's Madison Square Garden in a Babel of yips, yaps and woofs (plus a screech or two from the barkless Basenji), poodles again rated as the top contenders for Westminster's top award. The dogs were benched beneath the Garden's main floor, surrounded by dog manicurists and hairdressers, fussing owners, and concessionaires who peddled everything from breath sweeteners and "No-Mate Tablets'' to life-size dog portraits ($35 and up). On the main floor, perfumed, powdered and pomaded pooches paraded...
...from the third act of Il Trovatore, had not a single high C in it, but Tenor Enrico Tamberlik (1820-89) started inserting one in the middle and one at the end-and they have been there ever since. The 40 tenors sing in six languages, and generally bleat, screech, bawl and scream in a manner calculated to make any listener sympathize with Rossini's request that a visiting tenor "check his high C with his overcoat...
...sirens screech in the dead of the West German night. In dozens of barracks and off-base housing units, thousands of U.S. men and officers snap awake and dive for field uniforms and equipment. One by one, the diesel engines of the squat, 52-ton M-60 tanks cough and rumble to life. In quick order, the assembled units roar down serpentine German roads toward fighting positions that have long since been plotted for protective cover and fields of fire. Within two hours of the first cry of the sirens, the 14,617-man 3rd Armored Division...