Word: wailful
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...world. But it didn't sound odd, for the Irish women of Belfast have been making the sound most every day since the troubles began in 1969. Usually it's a warning to the men that the British are moving in; sometimes, like last week, it's a wail of grief that the British have taken another life...
...performance seems a model of restraint next to Williamson's Merlin. The voice sweeps from wail to whisper, from adenoidal giggle to basso preposteroso growl - often in the same sentence. It is a daring display, and an exhilarating one. Merlin is, after all, a man out of time: "Our days are numbered," he declaims to Morgana...
...factory sirens began to wail at 8 a.m., and for the next four hours all Poland held its breath. In Warsaw, trams and buses draped with red-and-white national flags sat idle in their barns. In Silesia, brawny coal miners folded their arms and refused to descend into the mines. In the Baltic port of Gdansk, where last summer's strikes first launched Poland on its present, breathtakingly dangerous course, shipyard workers laid down their welding torches and rivet guns...
...TIRED to Boogie," a lengthy disco scene, radiates the pathos and misfortune of academic types seeking to relieve their boredom in the foreign environment of strobe lights and glass balls. In contrast, a '50s bobby-socks mock-up allows the singers and dancers to wail over the alienation of their social life by oppressive education appeal to the audience as reminders of the elite status that three years at the Law School provide to those who choose to undergo whatever social barbarism it imposes. The show's authors depict the painstaking process of interviewing with corporate law firms, an experience...
...resented. But the general perception is that nothing connected with the Government works at all. That is especially true of Congress these days, where all the reforms of the past few years were supposed to oil the machine. It was not long ago when the great wail about Congress was aimed at the obstructive, old (and usually Southern) committee chairmen. Nowadays you do not see a chairman of the Rules Committee putting controversial bills in his pocket and going off to a Virginia farm, the way Congressman Howard Smith used...