Word: wailful
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...word, not a grunt, not a bellow nor a sigh; not a hiccough, not wail, not a curse, nor a cry. Not a hint, in fact, that the killer weed had been smelled uptown that day. If art is, in fact, anything you can get away with, then the Diggers have indeed added a whole freaky new dimension to the concept of Revolution...
...songs. In Bacharach's Anyone Who Had a Heart, for example, she slides from a 5/4 rhythm to 4/4 to 7/8 and then, instead of the standard four-bar ending, finishes with a five-bar tag that adds a strange lilt and a choir-loft wail...
...amount of warning, however shrill, ever quite prepares a people for the air-raid siren's scream. The first wail is always difficult to believe. In Cairo, last week, it scarcely disturbed the morning bustle of the bazaar, or the gossip of black-clad women clucking along the banks of the muddy Nile. No matter that only the night before, President Gamal Abdel Nasser had welcomed Iraq to the Egypto-Jordanian alliance against Israel, and proclaimed: "We are so eager for battle in order to force the enemy to awake from his dreams and meet Arab reality face to face...
...climb into an ancient, wheezing taxi and make it known by various gestures that you want to go 'to the front,' " reports Rademaekers. "Off you go in the general direction of Suez in a billowing cloud of dust, accompanied for three hours by the weakening wail of the horn. In the end, you are usually delivered to a police station, where you are politely offered coffee and firmly told to go back to Cairo. In many ways, it is similar to the war between India and Pakistan, which I covered by taking a taxi to the front...
...ever seen. When she arrives back home after dark, the poor dopey male, Tom, is waiting at the gate to punish his faithless Patsy. "He rose as she went through the gate and acted so deftly that the scream she let out got lost in her throat as a wail. She died with her back to him and as she fell, he helped her down." Then he saw that it was poor Willa...