Word: screeching
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...Pierce of Harvard bounced radio waves off the meteor trails. His gadget gave a dramatic whistle, like the screech of an approaching shell, whenever a meteor hit the atmosphere. Other scientists took to radar, which can see through clouds as if they were Cellophane. At the Bureau of Standards' laboratory near Sterling, Va., they watched bright blobs of light on a radarscope. These were made, they said, by the radar beam reflected from hot, ionized gases-the remains of meteors as they disintegrated in the atmosphere 50 to 80 miles...
...wing, reducing its lift. The plane's nose drops. Faster & faster it dives. Louder screams the shock wave. The pilot struggles helplessly with the controls, but the tail surfaces do not respond normally. They cannot pull the nose up. Down to earth shoots the plane, with the screech of a siren...
Next day the Communist Unità gave out a screech that smothered Cantachiaro's crow: "A weekly paper which calls itself satiric and anti-Fascist printed yesterday the complete text of Mussolini's speech, thus offering readers a most beautiful piece of Fascist propaganda. . . . This is an act of evident collaboration ... an act of sabotage. . . . The paper which does it must be suppressed and the responsible person arrested...
...wedding, her husband refused to let the best man tear off the bride's garters and wear them in his hat-"a rude and nasty custom," he barked. At meals he propped a book against the saltcellar, read gloomily. Marie used to hear his Latin pupils screeching as he beat them (if they failed to screech in grammatical Latin, he beat them again). Marie had beautiful hair, but Husband Milton was entirely too occupied combing his own long locks to notice hers...
...weeks before Dijon's liberation, two U.S. paratroopers-boyish Captain William Pietsch (rhymes with screech) and Sergeant Robert Baird-dropped down into the area from England. Also parachuted: automatic arms and mortars for 300 men. The two Americans organized the Maquis, led several small attacks, harried the disorganized Germans right & left. Getting bigger ideas, Captain Pietsch set out in an ancient Buick, drove it through German lines, reached the Third Army, borrowed a few U.S. tanks...