Word: shriek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rolling Stones are on stage in person live right there a part of our collective fantasy life, and now that real figures confront us there doesn't seem to be anything we can say. Back before the Mothers, before Hendrix, way back before the Who, we used to shriek. No one shrieks. We stare...
After years of enduring the ear-splitting shriek of jetliners flying over their homes, residents of communities near airports can at last look forward to quieter skies. By 1971, FAA Associate Administrator Oscar Bakke announced last week, the aviation agency will most likely demand that the engines on some 2,100 existing commercial jets be muffled to reduce their noise to a still unspecified level...
...rock back and forth like they always do. But as the full shock of this noise hits them, you can see them shrivel down in their seats until they sit there paralyzed, barely breathing. Twelve minutes later, the piece rumbles to a stop in the middle of an unbelievable shriek from the saxophones. The kids sit stunned...
...stroke engine remains untouched, but its exhaust is channeled through complicated "extractors" or straight pipe "resonators" that make the humble bug sound like a snarling Ferrari or thundering Offenhauser. A less expensive gimmick is to wire a bottle of water under the exhaust pipe, where it produces a joyous shriek as exhaust blasts across its top. Thus, cars that leave the factories merely muttering turn up on the roads making more noise than factory machinery...
...have something else in mind. "Edgar Allan Poe's ultimate orgy of evil and unbearable horror!" they shriek, conjuring up images of a dawn-to-dusk scare show at the local drive-in. Obviously the distributors were afraid of something-probably the spooks that Spirits of the Dead promises but never actually delivers...