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Word: wail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night was tense around the University, though, as students, cruising police cars, and over 20 photographers and reporters kept an alert eye for possible trouble. Every wail from a police siren brought reporters running, but nothing particularly out of the ordinary occurred. Firecrackers exploded sporadically and pointlessly...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Rumored Riot Fizzles; Peace Reigns in Yard | 4/29/1961 | See Source »

...sounds that reverberated through Moscow's Teatr Estrady last week seemed strangely out of place in the drab, disciplined Soviet capital: the salivating slur of a trombone, the mellow wail of a muted trumpet, the throaty murmur of a saxophone and the staccato thunder of drums. U.S. tourists even thought they could identify the nearly indistinguishable melody: Lullaby of Birdland. They were right. At picnics and Komsomol dances, in cabarets and conservatories, the Soviet Union is swinging to the sound of jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Red Hot | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...wail of a child broke up a television taping session in the White House broadcasting room. Jumping to his feet, the President of the U.S. raced through the door, shouting, "Who's crying in this house?" A moment later, he returned, carrying his snuffling, snowsuited daughter. He handed her the first object that came to hand, a plastic Red Cross that he was using in the taping. "Here, Caroline," he soothed, "want a nice red cross? You've got that cap pistol in one hand, you might want this for the other." Caroline Kennedy's tears quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Damned Good Job | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

...dinner guests at the Commonwealth Club, Ike strode wide and deep into the campaign with an all-but-personal telecast attack on Jack Kennedy's charges against the Republican record. "When in the face of a bright record of progress and development, we hear some misguided people wail that the United States is stumbling into the status of a second-class power and that our prestige has slumped to an alltime low, we are simply listening to a debasement of the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Nonpolitician at Work | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

...Irma moves remarkably fast, with the advisable speed of things outside the law and people on the lam-or it kicks its heels with Parisian verve and pertness. Marguerite Monnot's score has a gay street-music tinniness that can have resonance too, as in the rousing wail of From a Prison Cell or the ring and bounce of There Is Only One Paris for That. But it is England's dark, dynamic Elizabeth Seal in the title role-indeed, as the only woman in the show-who stands foremost. Without her fresh, bright gifts for dancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, Oct. 10, 1960 | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

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