Word: wail
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...They hold rods in their hands and reach forward with a peculiar, tense movement to tap the camel on the left side of the neck when they want him to turn right, on the right side to turn left. From deep in the riders' throats comes a sombre wail which for some reason camels find stimulating...
Arrived at the schoolhouse, leaders ripped off shingles, dragged handcuffed Gunn up to the roof, chained him to the rafters. Gasoline from automobiles was poured around him on loose shingles and rafters. Hungry flames leaped up, encircled the cowering black figure. From the smoke a wail of agony arose. A few moments later as the burning roof collapsed, an incinerated body plunked down on the desks below. Several thousand witnesses turned away for home...
...only sit and wail With a knot tied in your tail...
...becomes notoriously promiscuous, tenderly raises a brood of illegitimate children. After 20 years her husband, whom she has never ceased to love, returns. Sister Mary scorns him. Then her firstborn, Unex (so named because he was unexpectedly born in the middle of a road), dies and in a loud wail, as the curtain falls, Sister Mary finally makes known her contrition. Ethel Barrymore Colt, as one of Sister Mary's daughters, makes four appearances, speaks a few lines in the last...
Gateways to the campus of Montana State College (Bozeman) were picketed by young men huddled around fires last week. From the women's dormitory came the wail of "The Prisoner's Song." There had been trouble. Some eyes still smarted from tear gas with which the local constabulary had dispersed a mob of undergraduates who had attempted to enter the university heating plant. Object of entering the heating plant was apparently to blow the whistle, make further disturbance. Cause of this unusual activity: a general student strike, precipitated when Dean of Women Una B. Herrick ruled that...