Word: wail
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...that nearly 300 had lost their lives in the wreck. One railroad worker bound for his brother's wedding raced forward to the women's flaming car to check on his wife and five children just after the crash. They were all dead. "There was not a wail of anguish," he said later, "not a cry for help. They were all killed in a second. And for three months my wife had been preparing for the wedding...
...soon regretted his glowing invitation to Filipinos, extended in his inaugural speech, to telegraph complaints directly to the President. From all over the islands, thousands of long wires of woe crackled into Manila. Hastily, Magsaysay trimmed down his generosity: henceforth, though they may still be sent free, telegrams must wail in 50 words or less...
From Nairobi's panicky whites went a wail for regular troops to clear out the Negro locations. This meant withdrawing British infantrymen from their battle stations in the mountains, but Commander in Chief General Sir George Erskine could not resist the clamor. Six hundred young Inniskilling Fusiliers, in jungle-green uniforms and black berets, marched into Nairobi last week with orders to screen every African in the city. "Nairobi wants to rid itself of between 15,000 and 20,000 Negroes who are living in the city without permission," said Police Chief John Timmermann. The cops admitted that they...
...minimum-wage law, which protects the lowest-paid of our workers, have been drastically cut. And the farmer, who lives with greater economic hazards than perhaps any of us, is being told that he ought to 'go it alone' again . . . You should hear the farmer weep and wail and ask forgiveness for voting as he did last fall...
...Finaly boys were back. All France vibrated with the news last week, and the story of the year, which might have been invented by Novelist Graham Greene, shifted into a new chapter with a wail of police sirens...