Word: wailful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chimney and found the fire reached to 11½° above the horizon. He pulled out a slide rule and calculated its height-2,800 feet. Within minutes crowds of men, women & children were leaving their homes to hurry wildly along the sidewalks, clutching bundles of belongings. The wail of fire sirens rose all over the city and sound trucks blared directions to refugees...
There was an unspoken ritual in the pubs. When the buzz of a bomb or the repeated wail of an alarm as heard, the customers put down their drinks, walked out. whistling. Even the street was safer than a place of bottles and mirrors. The danger passed, they returned to their beer...
...high time. Since Feb. 26, when President Roosevelt announced that the armed services would take almost every able-bodied U.S. male aged 18-26, Washington has been more topsy-turvy than ever. Representatives of industry after industry have streamed into town to wail that they could not possibly fulfill their war contracts if their young key workers were drafted. Officials of Army, Navy, War Manpower Commission, Selective Service, WPB, ODT, Petroleum Administration for War, et al, have been scrambling away at cross-purposes or behind each other's backs, trying to get favored treatment for their industrial wards...
...Really, I'm disappointed," said the explosives expert. "They are not nearly as good as they should be." But when the air-raid sirens began to wail at that moment, he ordered the car to stop, jumped into the safety of an underground station without pausing to say good night...
...Lost Wail. Leros in ancient days was the place where the daughters of Oeneus, turned into guinea hens, wailed for their brother Meleager. Last week the wailing was loudest in London. There were un official suggestions that General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson of the Mid-East Command ought to be replaced. The General did his duty, gave an explanation which left the blame...