Word: shriek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the yard in the supercharged hour before bedtime. Turning his back on the children, Benjamin Kent Hooper, 32, was on his way to the house to get a pipe for the irrigation well he had been hand-digging for the vegetable patch. He heard a scurry, then a shriek: "Benny fell in the hole...
...technical achievement but far less successful. The moods of the two figures, the man and woman are so opposed that it is impossible to believe that that two human beings could be in proximity. The kneeling man's expression of contemplation is quite out of keeping with the shriek of pain that writhes from the peasant woman's body as she brings forth life...
...military band some 500 senior officers from the U.S. and 18 Latin American countries munched doughnuts and sipped coffee, admired each other's uniforms (578 generals' and admirals' stars, in all), and kept a weather eye out to sea. Then from along the beach below, the shriek of jet planes and blast of simulated atomic bombs drowned out the music. As the planes carried out their make-believe destruction, nine waves of landing craft chugged toward the beach, bringing 3,500 U.S. Marines. Operation Carib-Ex was under...
...unconscious. Doctors put him on a bench inside the windowed, diving-bell-shaped chamber. With Smith went Diver William J. Biller, 33. long experienced in recompression emergencies, to help in the battle for life. With the chamber door slammed and bolted, Biller waited as compressed air began to shriek in. Soon the air pressure inside the tank built up to 73.4 Ibs. per sq. in.-the equivalent of the pressure 165 ft. below sea level...
...Shriek in High-C. "I must believe," continued Ciardi, author of five books of verse,* "that the art of poetry is more important than Mrs. Lindbergh or than you or than me. I am compelled to believe that Mrs. Lindbergh has written an offensively bad book-inept, jingling, slovenly, illiterate even, and puffed up with the foolish afflatus of a stereotyped high-seriousness, that species of aesthetic and human failure that will accept any shriek as a true high...