Word: wailful
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With "nothing much to do," the four Manhattan girls (average age: 24) organized a rock 'n' roll combo called the What Four, designed wide-wale corduroy jump suits for themselves to wail in, tailored a couple of rock tunes to order, and then, reading success in a lot of tea leaves, invited a movie photographer to film a documentary of their "inevitable" jumping to fame. The What Four: Lillian Pogan on lead guitar, Elizabeth Burke on drums, China Girard on rhythm guitar, and on bass guitar, Diane Hartford, wife of A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, who invited...
...desks of key officials lay a blue volume of contingency papers labeled "War Book." Auto headlights were dimmed with smears of mud and cow dung, and trucks were camouflaged with leafy branches. For three successive nights, Indian bombers struck at Karachi's harbor installations, and the wail of air-raid sirens blended with the sobbing call to prayer of muezzins atop minarets. A bitter Pakistani official said, "Let's fight it out and get it over with. Either we become slaves of India, or India accepts us as an independent state. This suspense must...
...Hinds, the first mate. I ran upstairs to tell the captain. He was dead, lying crosswise on the bridge." Elwin ran to hide in the chain locker. After two hours, he heard the engine stop. Then nothing-for 16 hours-until he heard the patrol boat's siren wail...
...Wail of S.O.S.s." Then there is Schlesinger's account of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion against Cuba's Castro. The idea, Schlesinger recalls, had been inherited from the Eisenhower Administration. Schlesinger says that Kennedy found it distasteful-and so did Schlesinger. Once Schlesinger discussed with the President a White Paper on Cuba that he had been asked to draw up. "As we finished, I said, 'What do you think about this damned invasion?' He said wryly, 'I think about it as little as possible.'" But the plan was favored...
...table and listened in silence." Kennedy, Schlesinger writes, "insisted that the plans be drawn on the basis of no United States military intervention-a stipulation to which no one at the table made objection." Later, when the "only signal from the beach was a wail of S.O.S.s," the President, in his bedroom, "put his head into his hands and almost sobbed...