Word: wailful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toward the black, tubular individual bomb shelters that line the city's downtown streets. After all, never in the history of the Indochina war had densely populated downtown Hanoi been bombed. Last week Hanoi's luck ran out. By the time the air-raid sirens began to wail their warnings, the French diplomatic mission had been bombed into ruins, five employees were dead, and the chief French diplomat in North Viet Nam, Pierre Susini, was critically injured...
...15th is also grandiose and tire some, a big, empty balloon of a symphony. Shostakovich makes all the right orchestral gestures. Snare drums tap away energetically. Muted trumpets wail balefully from some nostalgic never-never land. The first cello sings a sad song. At the proper climactic moments, the strings and brass saw away at each other like legions at war. Yet gesture is just about all there...
...wail of mud is thrown into the air, small rocks pelt the spectators, and the rear becomes deafening as the cyclists rocket pest the crowd. Going into a hairpin turn one rider doesn't quite make it and goes careening off the embankment and through the bales of hay. Racing on, the rest of the pack is confronted with a jump that causes them to land in a mudhole. There's another curve, but this time it's filled with sand, and the 40 racers begin to string out because there's only room for six of them to ride...
...Creggan districts-which were known to Catholics as "Free Derry." Residents peered from behind blinds as troops with their faces blackened for camouflage in the darkness edged along the walls of the buildings, painstakingly scanning rooftops for snipers. On a plateau above the city, an I.R.A. siren began to wail-and continued until troops finally spotted its location almost three hours later and shut...
...grizzly bears. Furthermore, two new major attractions have recently opened up. One, "It's a Small World," has extraordinary power to awaken certain childhood stereotypes of foreign lands, like Siam, Persia, or China. But even better is the Haunted House. In this house, foot-high three-dimensional translucent women wail for demon lovers, tombstones topple over revealing their gruesome contents--the entire effect alternates between mild hysteria and wondering how those full size three dimensional ghosts are done. But Disney's "imagineers" aren't telling...