Word: shriekingly
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Pakistan cried for outside help. To the rest of the British Commonwealth it addressed a plea for aid in ending violence. To the U.N. it proposed that six observers be sent to Pakistan and India. Pakistan's appeal made India shriek...
...Then darkness closed in. It was three o'clock in the afternoon and above the swirling storm the sun was shining. Yet the plane wing, which seconds before I had watched flap like a bird's wing, no longer was visible. The shriek of the wind drowned out the engines. Water began to pour in through the roof and sides...
...bore straight down the main line. On No. 4, Engineer Gibson and Fireman Hazen Lawrie saw its headlight. They waited a moment, thinking it would stop and go into the siding, as it was supposed to do. But it sped past the switch. As they jumped, they heard the shriek of brakes...
...mandrake with awe. Old Testament writers mentioned it with respect as a fertility symbol (Rachel purchased some from Leah at the price of Jacob's spending the night in Leah's tent). Medieval men, certain that there was something odd about mandrake, believed that it would shriek in Gothic agony when pulled out of the ground...
...whole business sounded like an urgent shriek to the U.N.'s atomic negotiators to get going on world control-and fast...