Word: wailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sheaves to Rye. Three trombonists-blond Eddie Anderson (from Sonny Dunham's band), slicked Norman Conley (Eddie Stone's) and curly-haired Chuck Maxon (Paul Whiteman's)-growled "Pedal G," their lowest possible note. The reeds began to wail. When the melody of the old hymn, Bringing in the Sheaves, roared through, Brick nodded happily: "It's in there." He lit a cigaret, drank a glass of water and visited the control room, all the time directing the band with his pinkie, and rocking his head like a strutting turkey gobbler...
...Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." -John Milton...
...know where to follow if the tears blur our visit and pessimism beclouds our minds. There was no hope who accept the inevitability of war, who have taken "World War III" into their vocabulary, will doubt more deeply now the possibilities for peace. President Roosevelt is gone, they will wail, and Simple Uncle Sam will be outsmarted in his own San Francisco...
...Germans swore they would deny Antwerp to the Allies as a port. In Belgian cities along the V-bomb routes, sirens wail frequently, as the noisy V-1s pass overhead. But no sirens sound in Antwerp, the bombs' principal target. In Antwerp men never leave the ack-ack guns, the city's defense against the V-1s. Against the faster-than-sound V-2s, there is no defense...
...Rome Star) twelve hours to make the 135-mile run that crack trains used to make in less than four hours. But to Italians, who for a year and a half have known the isolation, despair and hunger that follow the collapse of a highly developed technological civilization, the wail of the Stella Roma's whistle would seem almost to announce the end of a new Dark...