Word: wailful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...year ago London had little effective anti-aircraft defense. Last week London was ringed with batteries of anti-aircraft guns. So secure did London feel that the press raised a wail for the Moscow-type blackout (lights dimmed only after first alarm has sounded...
...alert let go its giant banshee wail-"Woo-oo-oo-oo-oo!"-a dreadful, penetrating warble, like no other sound on earth. A boy's voice said: "Don't worry, sis, I'll look after you. We'll get in the air-raid shelter just like the practice at school...
...demanded: "Where, oh where is Dubinsky today? . . . He is crying out now and his voice laments like that of Rachel in the wilderness, against the racketeers and the panderers and the crooks in that organization. . . . And now above all the clamor comes the piercing wail and the laments of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. And they say, 'Peace, it is wonderful.' " He invited them and their president to follow Dubinsky into the fold...
...siren was a nerve-tearing noise. Dr. Henry Albert Wilson, Bishop of Chelmsford, was dead in earnest when he wrote: "I suggest a gay cockadoodle-doo repeated half a dozen times would be in the nature of a whistle to keep our courage up instead of a dole ful wail which depresses all but the most stouthearted...