Word: wailes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hold the camera on his subject for more than a split-second; he uses light and shadow to reveal or conceal, as he wishes; and he seems to have spent a good deal of time on the sound effects for the film. They are no more than the wail of a distant siren, or the call of a loon on a lake, but they are immensely effective...
...plane appears hostile, a yellow alert (attack likely) is flashed to civil-defense officials in the potential target area. A red alert (attack) is the signal for sirens to wail and people to seek shelter. Meanwhile, in defense jargon, fighters will "take appropriate action," i.e., try to shoot down the intruder...
...been wrapped in dark mourning for Talal's murdered father, King Abdullah, once more came alive. Youngsters ran through the streets shouting, "Welcome, King Talal!" Crowds shouted their congratulations, and Bedouins from the desert fired rifles into the air. From the housetops, women set up the weird wail that among Arabs denotes...
...military part of the display now starts." Suddenly, two silvery, swept-wing MIG-15 jets hurtled across the field headed directly at each other, skidded narrowly past, shot away close to the speed of sound. Five new types of swept-wing jet fighters flashed past, outracing the banshee wail of their engines. Column after column of MIG-15s paraded over the crowd, followed by 100 four-engine Russian copies of the U.S. B29, seaplanes, amphibians, a new twin-jet naval light bomber. Nine helicopters whirled up, rainbows of parachutists floated down from huge transports...
...Sephardic spiritual or a song of Yemen's lonely shepherds, her voice rises in volume and takes on a coarser quality, and the melodies take eerie slides and leaps. By the time she reaches the song's climax, her head tossed back, her voice a full-throated wail, the nightclub is pulsating with a savage beat...