Word: shriek
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...eaves, happiness a wing ding . . . is. Excerpts: "he kissed me through a glass closed window /I ... tried to remember as the glass shattered / that this was freedom instead of death"; "the heart is a circle / shaped like a cross . . . / a mold of lava / a tender thing / a shriek in the pillow / a butterfly's wing"; "... a wine of palest color . . . / It tasted bitter as an herb used perhaps for poison / And yet I drank / believing that when I reached the bottom / it might be sweet...
...least informative. On the 100th anniversary this year of the birth of British press freedom, the Times took one horrified look at the giant journalistic world around it, and aptly concluded: "[In Britain's popular press] irresponsibility is rife. The tone of voice is a perpetual shriek. So-called brightness is all. [The popular press has descended] to ... abysmal depths of triviality and to the frankly disgusting...
...incongruity of the two ladies, the world's press thenceforth gleefully linked their names on the least pretext. Last week, Dame Edith was asked about Marilyn again, reached the end of her rope, cried: "If I hear that young woman's name again I shall shriek! Being a polite and, I hope, chivalrous woman, I said to her . . . that I hoped if she came to London she would . . . have tea with me. That is all there was to it . . . but since then my life has been made absolute hell...
...large twin tanks that sit two inches apart from each other. If the liquid oxygen should be contaminated, it would blow the plane, trailer, crew and spectators off the desert floor . . . Once in the tank, the liquid oxygen boiled off continuously at one pound a minute [causing] the weird shriek I heard early this morning . . . The gauges . . . were watched as cautiously as those in a surgery . . . Once the very nervous hydrogen peroxide was in the Skyrocket, a speck of dirt in the ... tank or in any of the myriad tubes and lines, and the little research ship would be blown...
...Kazuo Hasegawa as Moritoh and Machiko Kyo, already known to American audiences for her part in Rashomon, as Lady Kesa. They are content merely to suggest love by the slow movement of a hand, and desire by a grimace that lasts only for second. Where a Western actor would shriek, they merely tremble...