Word: wail
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...Tough for Brakes. With the accent on speed, the maneuverability test became a rigorous trial for brakes. A pair of Pontiacs failed to finish even the first lap. Brakes completely shot, a Jaguar sailed helplessly across the finish line, scattering spectators with a steady wail of its horn. Winner was Professional Driver Mel Larson, 28, who tooled his 1958 Plymouth Savoy down the course so skillfully that he never kissed a course marker, never crossed a white line marking the 11-ft. traffic lanes. In second place: Pro Joe Weatherly, who brought his Ford Ranchero home less than...
...that money, you could do it, too." This does justice to neither Jean Paul Getty nor his ambitious, strong-willed father. When J. Paul was born in 1892, George F. Getty was a prosperous Minneapolis lawyer. On the day when he heard his son's first wail, he calmly turned on his heel, strode downstairs and said to the maid: "Set another place for lunch." By the time Paul was ten, he had developed into so thrifty a lad that he went without lunch for months; instead, he saved the $1.75 a week that...
...through the wringer method. But the savings of the kind we need can come about only through cutting out or deferring entire categories of activities. This will be one of the hardest and most distasteful tasks that the coming session of Congress must face, and pressure groups will wail in anguish...
...local music-hall and cabaret favorites as Philippe Clay and Irene Lecarte. Item of three-star interest: "le rock 'n' roll" number, Alhambra Rock, bawled by Paris' chief exponent of "impétuosité frénétique," Magli Noël, in the choked wail of a wet-diapered infant...
...sirens in Washington began their drawn-out wail, warning that "enemy H-bombers'' were approaching the capital as part of the fourth nationwide civil defense test, "Operation Alert 1957." Like millions of other Americans in major cities across the U.S., the President of the U.S. was ready to play his part in the nuclear-age fire drill. At 2:10 p.m., hatless, wearing a tan, double-breasted summer suit, he walked across the White House's south lawn, and for the first time boarded his new royal-blue and white Bell Ranger helicopter.* Serious of mien...