Word: wail
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...Westerners ever fathomed the appeal of Umm Kulthum, the buxom, handkerchief-waving Egyptian singer who was known to her Middle Eastern fans as "the Nightingale of the Nile." She had a stentorian contralto and a quavering wail that grated on the ears of those attuned to the trills of opera divas. But her voice was a near-perfect instrument for expressing the sinuous quarter tones of Arabic music...
...Formula One's start to practice. Running through their gears, these cars wail like air-raid sirens going at full blast. They will average over 120 mph on this course with its 11 curves and two long straights. Watching these cars run their laps is like seeing five out of every 100 frames of a motion picture; a series of loud flashes with little continuity and a great deal of suspense between glimpses. I won't know the overall story of the race until I read it in the next day's paper...
...taken driving a dog team. Arriving in Anchorage, however, Tucker found no snow. Gamely he dressed up in a fur-trimmed anorak and posed his wife Sara in the sled, then waved a whip above five puzzled huskies. He was not so happy when the dogs set up a wail reminiscent of / Pagliacci. "Mush!" he cried, and swung the whip in his wife's direction saying, "It's the first time in more than 35 years I've had a chance to crack a whip over my wife...
...Yard each evening at 5:20 p.m. to bellow the finest Tarzan yell this side of the Equator. W.C. Burriss Young '55, then associate dean of freshmen, soon perceived that something had to be done, as each evening multitudes of freshmen abandoned their studies to hark to the mystery wail. Grade-point averages were dipping dangerously. Young pursued the lonely caterwauler with the dogged persistence of an insecure gum-shoe, and one cold morning at 3:30 a.m., confronted the youth in his Matthews Hall digs. "I would like to discipline you," Young asserted coolly, "but to do so would...
...where to find him. Such rock luminaries as Eric Clapton (late of Cream), Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) and John McLaughlin (soon to found the Mahavishnu Orchestra) would drop by. Hendrix would unwind, stretch and bend the notes as he never could onstage. He would make his guitar wail like a lost soul on the Delta. Sometimes it sounded like a horn, sometimes like a violin. Suddenly it would laugh its way to a final cadence. An old bottle-neck blues number might go on for a half-hour...