Word: wail
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...daytime the Joey leads a rather somnolent existence, remaining comfortably curled up in a gum tree notch. At night they move about and eat the tender eucalyptus shoots which are their only food. Often, after dark, their heart-rending cry can be heard through the bush. A wail which is the very essence of anguish as a distraught mother seeks her lost offspring...
Whipped to a frenzy during Holy Week, the brothers assemble on Good Friday, each band with a lucky one chosen to be the Cristo. To the thin wail of the pipe and the dull sound of whips, they proceed to a hill of Calvary. The Cristo carries a heavy cross to which, on the hill, he is lashed so tightly that he turns black and puffy. The cross is hoisted up. The Cristo cries: "For the love of God, not with a rope ! Nail me ! Not with a rope ! For the love of God, nail...
...Penitentes no longer use nails because too many Cristos have died that way. For 45 minutes the Cristo hangs on the cross while around him his brothers chant, wail, scourge themselves with whips and cactus. Then the victim is cut down, carried back to the morada where awaits an enfermero with brews and unguents...
...small, swart Napoleonic figure wrapped in a greatcoat. The man mounted, with assistance, the tailboard of a truck, took a paper from his pocket. Two shivering policemen braced their shoulders, put bugles to their chapped lips, sounded assembly. Half way through the call one bugle gave a despairing wail, froze tight. Provision men came running from all sides to see the show. The man in the greatcoat began to read in an enormous voice from the paper in his hands...
Last week Hero Freeburg, now 28, again made national news. Flying his nightly Chicago run, he took off from St. Paul with five passengers, headed for Minneapolis, ten miles away. Circling to land, he heard a small siren wail in the cockpit, saw a tiny light flash on the control board, knew at once what every transport pilot dreads: his retractable landing-gear was jammed. Back he headed for St. Paul, hoping the plane's vibration would shake the wheels down. They refused to budge. For nearly two hours he circled helplessly over St. Paul while Co-Pilot John...