Word: screechingly
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Near Aguila, Ariz, one rainy night last week a bus scrunched along a soggy road, bearing 35 Mormon Church members back to their homes. Led by their Bishop Morris R. Perry, they had made a four-day pilgrimage to a Mormon temple at Mesa. Suddenly with a wrenching screech of jammed brakes the bus crashed through a detour sign which the driver had seen too late. Slithering off the road the bus turned over. When help arrived five Mormon women and a girl-baby were dead, all but two of the rest were injured. Said Bishop Perry: "There were only...
...setting over cotton fields and scattered palms, bare purple mountains in the distant background. She's doing 58. Cut the gas for the turn into the irrigation plant enclosure. No pump Diesels throbbing, so Doran will have the radio going. Barely miss a skunk near the settling basin, screech to a stop behind Clary's new Ford 8 parked in front of the engineer's quarters. A little late, but "1933 marches on" into the yawping of ''Hooey'' P. Long's latest...
...sank to a new low and a new horde overran Mallorca: U. S. hard-drinkers who wanted to live like characters in a novel by Ernest Hemingway. They set up their own bars in Mallorca's famed caves. They started a fad of imitating a peacock's screech, slept all day, screeched like peacocks all night. Tourist prices began to skid upward. Travel publicity brought new thousands of law-abiding U. S. tourists, many of whom stayed to open their own shops, restaurants, travel bureaus and pensions...
This condemnation from a hard-boiled politician of the Tammany stripe sent the Roosevelt crowd into a rage. Shrieked Senator Long: "Just the funeral march? the last screech of defeat! All Frank Hague knows is the road to Manhattan...
...sleepless roar that throbs across the city's zoo, rises every night a roar of animal voices, voices from Africa and Asia, from the polar ice, the plains of Tanganyika, the primeval forests of Borneo. Lions groan and tigers moan. Elephants trumpet like thunder. Wolves howl, hyenas laugh, monkeys screech. But all cry the same thing: "How long must we remain captive? What have we done that we should suffer so horribly? Why are we here? Why?" Sleepy humans do not answer, do not even hear...