Word: wail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insert an IV needle, but the boy, who spoke no English, cried and resisted. "No moveas," St. Andrew cajoled in semi-Spanish. An impatient nurse on the phone demanded a blood- pressure reading. Suddenly Tony stopped crying. St. Andrew shook him gently: "Antonio, Antonio!" The boy began to wail again. Everything was chaotically routine. Hospital tests eventually showed that Tony had neither head injuries nor broken bones...
...akbar! Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!" the call begins. Mesmerized, the Tadzhiks as one man -- there is not a woman in sight among the 10,000 except Alexandra -- raise their hands in the traditional Muslim posture of worship. The Soviets stiffen. The officers disappear from the windows. Except for the wail of the mullah, a total hush has descended upon the gathering. After the prayer call, the mullah reads a sura from the Koran honoring the dead. Three minutes later, the prayer and reading are over, but there is an unmistakable new militancy in the air. "Makhkamov must go!" shouts...
...trying to find someone wearing a Broncos feed cap. The visitor ducks around the corner into Preservation Hall, a magnificently funky storefront that looks as if it has been flooded and drained a few times, where a $2 donation lets you stand and listen to some grand old Dixielanders wail the stuffing out of St. James Infirmary and Muskrat Ramble...