Word: shriekingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...gullied wastelands, the shriek of tires and the stench of scorched rubber filled entire valleys. On straight stretches of new road built by his government, Pérez Jiménez watched the speedometer needle of the Mercedes-Benz tremble around 160 kilometers (100 m.p.h.). He flashed by goats, banana plantations, royal palms and startled girls in magenta dresses; he hurried dustily on through villages where school children lined the streets for shrill vivas, through towns that tried to attract official attention to their rustic needs with crude banners impossible to read at high speed. After nine hours he coasted...
...year-old anti-feminist tradition will end with a shriek at the Hasty Pudding Club when Lucy Barri '55 screams from the wings for 20 seconds in this year's Pudding Show, "The Happy Medium...
...their screams weren't blood-curdling enough," Miss Barri explained, "and Denn Fischer, the director, finally had to admit he know someone who could shriek beautifully...