Word: shriek
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...heap, they thought a bomb had blocked the entrance. They made a rush for the stairs. At that very moment (here and only here did the war touch this accident) something in the sky over London frightened those who had not yet entered. Some said that it was the shriek of a dive-bomber, others that it was London's new anti-aircraft shell which sounds like "100 witches going overhead at 1,000 miles an hour." The people outside surged forward and pushed down the stairs...
...lady got served all right, and worked her way through a meal, sitting with her escort and another couple. Along about the salad, there was a shriek of recognition from one of Eliot's more colorful waitresses. "It's a man,' she lisped, and then it was known...
Georgia's loss of academic standing meant that its degrees and course credits were not recognized by other colleges, that its law, medicine and teachers' college graduates could not be licensed in other states. Georgia's faculty began to leave, and its students sent up a shriek that made the issue outstanding in last fall's election, which replaced Talmadge with Attorney General Ellis Gibbs Arnall...
...strikes the tops of the tall mill chimneys at Ahmadabad, India's leading textile city, a hundred factory whistles shriek and scream the call to work. But there is no response. Doors remain closed and the streets empty. The mills remain idle, as they have been since August 9, the day Gandhi was arrested...
Those who had not been through it before thought that was all, but it wasn't. Now, last of all, came the sound, no shriek of the bomb falling, but the sudden, shocking, dull, booming blast of the explosion...