Word: wailes
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Cambridge's "hell horns," which have been silent since last month's blackout, will wail again at an unannounced hour this Sunday afternoon in an experiment to determine warden and public reaction to the air raid sirens...
Some of us are getting sick and tired of the wail from Washington, echoed in TIME, that suggests that we, the people, are unaware of the war. What do you want us to do? You say we are awake. You say we are working. What do you want us to do? Shall we stand ranting in the streets tearing our shirts like any Congressman to convince you that we are serious? Wars are not won by words but by work and sacrifice. We are working. We are willing to sacrifice...
...wail of an air raid siren will echo from the Yard tomorrow for the second time, as the alarm on top of the Widener Library is given its first official test between noon and 1 o'clock...
...between Porgy and Bess contrasts sharply with the brutal savage love scene as Crown, in hiding in the swamps, finds Bess separated from a picnic party and forces her to stay with him for the night. Further tragedy comes as a hurricane strikes suddenly and the women gather to wail and pray for their...
...York Stock Exchange was sagging gently along early last week, when suddenly the news ticker flashed: "Unidentified planes two hours away...." Later, a huge siren near the old Treasury Building, right across the street, went off with an awful wail. On the trading floor men wheeled, dashed for the trading posts, frantically dumped thousands of shares of stock for whatever they would bring. This done, many of them high-tailed for office or home. When the all-clear sounded 17 minutes later, leading stocks had lost 2 to 10 points, the market was at a new four-year...