Word: shriek
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...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...
When the fuel was gone, Captain Apt reported calmly on his radio: "The engine has cut out and I'm beginning to turn." After six seconds of silence he spoke an unintelligible word, almost a shriek. A few minutes later his battered body was found in the cockpit capsule, which had plunged to the desert far below...
...leading singer in Athens' National Opera Company became ill. Maria was invited to take over the role of Tosca on 24 hours' notice. Backstage before the show, she overheard a male voice saying: "That fat bitch will never carry it off." With a shriek of rage, she leaped at the speaker, tore his shirt and bloodied his nose. Maria sang that night with a puffy eye. But she got raves from Athens critics...