Word: wailful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unusual sight of red and tan kilts worn by 21 members of the amateur Stuart Pipe Band and the equally strange wail of bagpipes drew passers-by from Plympton St. and the largest crowd of Quincy House students and affiliates ever to attend the event...
...feet of silt in their living room. With their two daughters, they just managed to drive to high ground. The night passed slowly. The smell was overwhelming: a mixture of sewage, diesel fuel and the gas from propane tanks. The escaping gas sounded like a banshee's wail as it hissed through broken connections. The onrushing waters roared like an avalanche...
...would thought it? One day I remember him. He was all wobbly on the roller rink. A maniac. He'd rush around, crash into old men who'd end up lying in the middle of the rink. And he'd wail. He'd always want to skate to 19th Nervous Breakdown...
Look. Two men jitterbug their drunk way down Lansdowne Street, shreiking and twirling and smashing into hard brick walls. Their noise intrudes in this damp, silent alley; the warehouses know no human sound or stink from five p.m. to nine in the morning. The men wail deep and coo softly, as if speaking through thin silk stockings...
...most resembles. In the illumination of the ordinary, in the acuity of his observations, Singer is sounding a theme that has not been heard in a hundred years. Bending close to the page, the reader can see the characters of Anton Chekhov - and hear once again the passionate wail of Rothschild's fiddle...