Word: shriekingly
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...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...
...defense mission, showed them a jet scramble. He notified the public of extra flight activities, spoke at civic clubs, showed groups around the base. Soon, Madison changed its mind about the Air Force. Said one elderly resident, formerly quick to complain when awakened at night by the banshee shriek of a scrambling...
Zoologists Hubert Frings and Joseph Jumber of Pennsylvania State College observed that starlings have a special "distress call." Sneaking into a barn one winter night, the researchers caught a starling that was sheltering there and held it up by its feet. The bird gave a piercing shriek, and the other starlings fled from the barn. When the trick worked well in several barns, Frings and Jumber caught more starlings and made them shriek their distress calls into a tape recorder...