Word: wailes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Kasba Mechta, reported TIME Correspondent Edward Behr, who flew in by helicopter, vultures wheeled overhead, and the wail of women filled the air. Bodies sprawled in every hut. In the mosque lay 87 grotesquely tumbled bodies; the ground was black with blood and brains. In all, the French counted 302 corpses...
When the infant's head emerges, the fully conscious mother demands to know whether she has a boy or a girl. "I can't tell," the doctor replies. "That part isn't out yet." Moments later, the shrill wail of young David Usill rises above the murmur of the bedside sounds. "Oh, doctor," breathes the mother, "that's beautiful...
Hadn't we better listen to a proven peacemaker (Eisenhower), rather than a proven failure (Acheson) in shaping our foreign policy in the Middle East? The best proof that Eisenhower's proposal accomplishes the desired ends is the anguished wail from behind the Iron Curtain...
...skies opened up and drenched Monaco one morning last week, portending in Riviera folklore the prospect of prosperity, health and character to all children born during rainstorms. In Monaco's pink-walled palace, Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite, 8 lbs. 3 oz., uttered her first wail, set off a chain reaction including a radio broadcast by her nervous father, Prince Rainier III, 33, a 21-gun salute from two ancient cannon, harbor whistles, bonfires, street dancing and a torrent of free champagne. No longer would Monacans worry that Rainier would die without an heir, a catastrophe that might have eventually...