Word: shriekingly
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...African plover. The crocodile's "dental service" is provided by his plovers ("a mating pair ... to each crocodile"), who fly fearlessly into his open jaws and pick leeches and scraps of food from between his teeth. At the least hint of danger, they leave his jaws with a shriek and the croc submerges...
...five minutes past 9 one morning last week, in the capital city of Ankara, a bugler blew a blast, and all over the nation's 296,000 square miles, 21 million Turks stood motionless for five minutes. Only the delayed shriek of jet formations broke the silence. Then cannon began to boom at five-minute intervals as Kemal Ataturk, the Father of the Turks-dead 15 years this day-began his last voyage...
...family takes a trip on the second-class bus, the cilindrero plays Las Golondrinas at the sendoff. He performs at dances for those who cannot afford to hire mariachis or fancy bands. When at midafternoon he shuffles into the big patio of a working-class tenement, children shriek, dogs bark, chickens scurry around, and women drop their housework to listen to his loud, lively songs. Then coins drop from some of the windows, and his partner scrambles for the centavos. Late in the day, dusty and tired, he finds his way to a corner cantina. "Do we make a deal...
Only a month earlier, when Mike attended the first of these Saturday sessions, he had done nothing but shriek and wail: "Is my mommy coming back soon?" With Mike out of the room, his mother had explained that he was always whining and crying at home, and not getting along well in school. He was hard to get up in the morning ("Of course I always dress him"), just as hard to get to bed at night, and between times he ate poorly...
...burst open and Nahas came out. His waiting followers jumped from their chairs and shouted: "No leader but Nahas!" till the tapestried walls shook. The feeble old man, his face streaming tears, was led by aides to the top of a sweeping marble staircase. Then, in a near-hysterical shriek, he gave his answer and threw down the gauntlet to Egypt's strongman: he was determined to stay on as the Wafd's leader. "God and the confidence of the Egyptian people in me," he cried, "are the source of my strength...