Word: shriek
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...personal visit of the head to a class will be an annual event, accompanied by all the ceremonial of a present-time speech day. A tube railway will be needed to connect its sixth-form rooms with the nearest university. The marvelous efficiency of such a school will shriek to high heaven and yet-right glad am I to think that a beneficent providence has ensured that I shall not be called upon to act as the smallest cog in its gargantuan machinery...
...aboard during the Channel crossing. His calm description of the scene was accompanied by the sound of the ship's ack-ack guns, the gunfire from nearby ships,'the calling of all hands to General Quarters, the excited comments of the gun crew making their first kill, the hurt shriek of a wounded German plane diving toward the worried waters of the Channel. Excerpts...
...would pop into sight with a squealing shriek that sent some groundlings dashing for shelter, sure that a heavy bomb was screaming down near by. As it whisked overhead the sound changed to something like "a giant whistling teakettle on the boil." It disappeared over the far horizon before you could say "knife." After a while, neighborhood people got used to it, even gave it a nickname: "The Squirt...
...these beer halls, Himmler first heard Hitler. At once, he joined the party of the flaccid man with the frenetic shriek and the square-cut mustache. He carried the standard in the abortive Nazi beer-cellar Putsch of 1923. Himmler was not arrested; the Bavarian police of the Weimar Republic told him to run along and find nicer playmates...
...have learned that . . . the jobless in India are related to the unemployed here. The Postwar Problems Committee of the National Association of Manufacturers (business men all) has wisely declared that increased production in other countries will not reduce living standards in the United States. Those twisters of fact who shriek that your Vice President is a wild-eyed dreamer trying to set up TVA's on the Danube and deliver a bottle of milk to every Hottentot every morning should read that report...