Word: wailful
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...mimeographed Bulletin was under no illusion that its cheerful chirping could drown out the harsh diapason from the rest of the press. Its editors were "nothing but working newspapermen who are tired of the 'Daily Wail,' the 'Unlucky Star,' the 'Scare Telegram' and the 'Terrible Times' . . . We are no journalistic ostriches and we do not deny the fact that our world today is full of misery and injustice ... All we want to do is show the other, more pleasant side of the picture...
...last night boat gave up. Last week, the Manhattan press broke into a wail of nostalgia as the passing of the Day Line was announced. New York's cave dwellers felt a twinge of regret too-until they tried to remember when they had last ridden on a Day Line boat. It had been quite a while...
...South, the Dixiecrats were scrambling for cover. Over the flat cotton lands rose the wail of countless Dixiecrats protesting that they had considered themselves Democrats all along. Candidate J. Strom Thurmond wired Truman: "You are entitled to the united support of a united people," then quickly explained to newsmen that "the fight was within our own family...
...Royal Mile. On opening day, the clear, crisp morning air throbbed with the wail of bagpipers from the grounds of Edinburgh Castle. By midafternoon, spectators had jammed the "Royal Mile" between Holyrood Palace and Edinburgh Castle to watch the ceremonial parade to dour St. Giles's Cathedral, led by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, in heraldic tabard, looking as if he had stepped off a playing card. In the cavernous cathedral, with a blast of trumpets, the festival was formally opened-a festival that would hear, before it was over, some 1,500 musicians, including seven orchestras, four...
...Democrats' last anguished wail. If he had not comprehended it before, Eisenhower may finally have understood the role they wanted him to play. At week's end he answered them in a soldier's blunt language. He asked to be spared the "acute embarrassment" of any further moves on his behalf. He said what he might have said months ago; "No matter under what terms, conditions or premises a proposal might be couched, I would refuse to accept the nomination." That, finally, ended...