Word: shrieked
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...They shriek because we look rather official with our mini-recorders...
...autograph or an interview. MTV offers a duel between a person on the street and a caller for tickets to the night's show. Apparently, a bunch of girls in the studio know the caller from school. "That's Matt, oh my gosh, that's Matt!" they shriek. Matt must be hot. One of the girls is hysterical. Kelly glares at her again...
However, the university has undertaken a major effort to beef up campus security. Overtime pay for police, shriek alarms and special seminars on safety have cost over $100,000, said Barbara Pitoniak, a university spokesperson...
Scott said the university has increased security patrols, asked faculty to raise the issue of safety in every class, and ordered 1,500 personal "shriek" alarms which will be distributed free to students and employees. The alarms make loud noises when triggered...
...wild horses of this art-industry, Hollywood in 1930 charged Will Hays, a former Postmaster General, with establishing and enforcing standards for screen stories and behavior. At times the regulators used diplomacy: one official, objecting to gruesome screams in Murders in the Rue Morgue, suggested "reducing the constant loud shrieking to lower moans and an occasional modified shriek." At other times they took the stern approach, telling Howard Hughes he was forbidden to make the gangster film Scarface. The producer's response, in a memo to director Howard Hawks: "Screw the Hays Office. Start the picture and make...