Word: shriek
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...forget what you learn through suffering." Only enjoyment that did not tempt him to moralize was listening to bagpipes. Whether he heard them in Edinburgh or in his family parlor, he gave himself up to wholehearted love for "the throbbing of the drones and the wild shriek of the chanter...
...drummer," explained Fats, pointing toward a wavy - haired youth. "We calls him Slick because if you dean watch out, he'll sneak off with yo' woman. You tested indignantly, but Fats went on to know, Slick as in slimy." Slick prosay that his real name is Wilmore. A shriek of laughter came from the five saxophonists. Unperturbed, Slick said that cold chills came over him when he heard Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra. Asked if he didn't lose weight after his torrid drum solos several times a day, Slick said no, he seemed to gain instead...
Fifteen miles from Patna all the travelers were shocked into full consciousness, many of them for only a few seconds. With a thunder of shattered wood, a shriek of torn steel, the train and seven cars took a head dive over the embankment, settled in a chaotic mess. The first two cars were completely telescoped, buried beneath the two that followed. From the two rear cars, which had stayed miraculously on the rails, leaped frenzied Europeans to behold a scene described by one as "like any battlefield." Relief workers rushing to the spot dragged more than 100 dead and mangled...
...onetime (1925-33) President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado, now in Montreal where his secretary announced he would be likely to stay. If this move was calculated to throw a scare into Boss Batista's restive Congress it worked too well, for the Senators immediately forgot the budget to shriek that soon Havana would be full of dangerous scalawags and cutthroats, to say nothing of political enemies...
Trumpeters will toot as strikes are tossed, and clarinets will shriek for joy as outfielders miss the high ones tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 o'clock, for the band is going to play at the Princeton baseball game on Soldiers Field...