Word: shriekingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hitler, who "had no love for foreign newsmen," was not quite so cordial. Visiting Berchtesgaden in 1932, Kaltenborn's prodding on anti-Semitism ("I purposely irritated him with my first question") provoked the Führer to shriek: " 'Who are you to talk about who should be allowed in Germany?' " Kaltenborn says that "got us off on the tone which dominated the entire interview...
Bernard Shaw, convalescing nicely from his broken left thigh bone, had, as usual, plenty of other things to complain about. Once a doctor heard him shriek "Stop her," rushed in to find the white bearded playwright on his stomach with a nurse rubbing oil into his skin. "But Mr. Shaw," the doctor said, "she's only doing that to keep you from getting bed sores. It's nothing at all." "Nothing at all?" howled Shaw. "Who's bottom is she playing with anyway...
...Traveler seems like a shrieking sister of the Herald, but unlike most Boston papers, it often has the courage to shriek in crusades against political shenanigans and incompetent bureaucrats. Last year, its able newshen Sara White wrote a series which helped reinstate Miriam Van Waters, a competent reformatory superintendent who had been fired for too progressive penal methods. Last week, Reporter White also won freedom for a pregnant mother of four children, imprisoned for neglect without having been given legal counsel. But neither the Traveler nor any other Boston paper printed the prison record of J. Joseph Connors, appointed...
There was a little shriek of delight from the women spectators. Then the Sanders' neighbors crowded around them jubilantly. Outside the courthouse, another crowd of 300 townspeople whooped and cheered. That night 500 neighbors assembled in the biting cold outside the Sanders' big white farmhouse for a torchlight parade...
...head cars plowed along each other's flanks, peeling back the sides with a shriek of tearing metal, rolling up steel, seats, hats, briefcases, newspapers, human bodies into two great, tortured wads of debris at the ends of the cars. The second car of No. 175 buckled, jumped the track and fell against the embankment of the new overpass. The trains came to a standstill in a second of dark and shuddering silence...