Word: wailful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traded, is the London Stock Exchange. For war "The House," as Londoners call its huge six-story building, has corrugated metal shutters on the windows, slabs of concrete over lavatory glass, skylights, pavements, etc. Inside, 30 seconds before the rest of London hears an air-raid siren's wail, a, special Klaxon stops the traders. They gather their books and scurry to their City offices, all less than half a mile away. Only red-and-blue liveried "waiters" (runners) are left on the echoing floor. So called because 18th-Century brokers did their trading in coffee houses, the waiters...
...Small got there). As he passed through Lille and Tournai last fortnight, they were bombarded. Nazi planes followed him along the roads. Said another newsman, when he arrived in Paris last week: "Get the hell out of here, Alex, or we'll be bombed." Immediately sirens began to wail an airraid alarm for the first time in a fortnight, bombs fell...