Word: wail
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...just about the most beautiful woman in show biz. She's an earthy singer and a phenomenal dancer. The quality of her voice is unexceptional, in comparison to Aretha's, but her intensely emotional delivery is fully equal to Janis Joplin's; both have a raw-edged wail of pain that really cuts through you. Like Janis, she makes the transition from one extreme-show blues-to the other-hard rock-with utmost agility. She is a Sex Goddess and plays the role to the hilt, managing to infuse as much nuance into every line as the audience cares...
...song of the road for truckers has become a terrifying wail to the motorist, as the former "knights of the road" cut off other vehicles, fail to yield the right of way, exceed even passenger-car speed limits and generally add to the hazards of expressway driving...
...Greg stands stripped down, physically and spiritually naked. Humiliated in body and spirit, he takes out his self-contempt on Kee-the nagging mirror of his own human weakness-and kills him. Thus the log that began as a military record ends as a near-mad confession, a wild wail addressed to the Rescue God ("We cannot save ourselves...
...exalted New England speech. "My hand drifted up and touched my brow, finding it was as wet and cold as the belly of a trout," he wrote in Out of My League. "It was a disclosure which sent the voice spinning off in a cracker-Cassandra's wail of doom. 'Mah God!' it cried out, 'y'all gonna faint out heah. Lawd Almahty! Y'gonna faint...
...darkened streets still littered with the charred rubble of the spring fire-bomb raids. The Cabinet sits late, pondering the accumulating evidence of Japan's almost certain defeat; but the diehards, led by War Minister Korechika Anami, want to fight to the last breath. Suddenly, air-raid sirens wail. In the sky, just short of the city, two Superfortresses wheel, and a single huge projectile drops through the dark toward the bay. A mile above the water, it detonates...