Word: wail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come...
When the air-raid sirens wail, Tali Rubin, 9, dashes to the "sealed room" in her home in the middle-class Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill, quickly dons her gas mask and, along with her mother, brother and two sisters, waits nervously for the missiles to roar overhead. Her first experience with wearing the protective device was distressing. "It was hard to breathe," recalls Tali. "The mask was too tight. I just wanted to take it off." As the attacks on Israel intensified last week, misery turned to anger. "I'm mad at Saddam Hussein," she declares...
...star Piotr Mamonov has a snaky charisma as the musician, and American tenor-sax legend Hal Singer blesses the project with his presence. At last May's Cannes Film Festival, Taxi Blues won the best-director prize. Today it has both news and nostalgic value. We can hear it wail, in a minor key, from the sweet and recent past: the early days of Soviet freedom, which seem only a prelude to the birth of the blues...
That feeling came to an abrupt end at about 2 a.m. Thursday morning, when Israelis across the country were roused from bed by the wail of air raid sirens...
...become an even more sharply perceived vital American interest, and the friendship of the Saudis and Egyptians accordingly seems all the more significant. One illustration: when Bush last week promised, Congress willing, to forgive Egypt's $7 billion military debt to the U.S., Israel could only wail, How come you're willing to do that for Cairo and not to erase our $4.6 billion foreign debt...