Word: wail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excess revenue in speculative stocks. In an abortive revolt against the "machine at the annual election in March the main complaint of the rebels was that the club leaders had in effect fulfilled their agencies too well and too efficiently. "We've been terrorized and sherryized," was the wail...
Makes widows moan and orphans wail...
Widow's Wail. Casimir, who died this month at 64, led his band for 40 years. Most of their work was playing in street parades for funerals, and no one in New Orleans could line up funeral work like John Casimir. Over the years, his friends said, Casimir learned the knack of arriving at a sickbed just after the priest and just before the hearse. If the victim looked sick enough, Casimir would give him a quarter. "Go buy yourself some ice cream," he would say cheerily, tipping his hat to the dying man's family. Everyone knew...
...Eastern girl's-school choir. Everywhere, there are bearded fop singers and clean-cut dilettantes. There are gifted amateurs and serious musicians New York, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis Denver and San Francisco all have shoals of tiny coffee shops, all loud with basic sound-a pinched and studied wail that is intended to suggest flinty hills or clumpy prairies...
Raising Standards. After considering rival bills for months, leaders in both houses of Congress heard the wail of public anguish and feared that it would turn into a roar of indignation. They quickly got together and hammered out the reasonable compromise that Kennedy signed. Pleased spectators at the signing were the Food and Drug Administration's Commissioner George P. Larrick and Dr. Frances O. Kelsey. who kept thalidomide off the U.S. market...