Word: wailful
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...only sound in Lahore was the banshee wail of the curfew siren and the tramp of hobnailed military boots on the darkened, empty streets...
...year-old perched precariously on the back of a chaise longue; a young woman postured in leg-revealing shorts. Upstairs a sleek blonde feigned innocent sleep. In one cellar, pajama-clad parents had herded their kids into wooden FCDA shelters, as if they had just been awakened by the wail of a warning siren. In every room, dummy Americans waited for the works...
Cash registers jungle, Johnny Ray drones over the crowd, and children wail for their mummies. Everyone hurries...
Only a month earlier, when Mike attended the first of these Saturday sessions, he had done nothing but shriek and wail: "Is my mommy coming back soon?" With Mike out of the room, his mother had explained that he was always whining and crying at home, and not getting along well in school. He was hard to get up in the morning ("Of course I always dress him"), just as hard to get to bed at night, and between times he ate poorly...
...country club." But there are other, highly readable things: a sly reminiscence of a month spent with Upton Sinclair in a Utopian-socialist community; a group of sketches about his apprenticeship as a reporter ; a picture of Jack London trying to read Henry James and bursting out with a wail: "Do any of you know what all this junk is about...