Word: wails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...receive less than a subsistence wage. Half the proved reserves of oil in the world lie beneath Arab soil. Have I made clear how great the importance of this element of strength is? So we are strong−strong not in the loudness of our voices when we wail or shout for help, but rather when we remain silent and . . . really understand the strength resulting from the ties binding us together...
...depths of bop and progressive jazz, they also left behind the sweet, lucid sound of the clarinet. Once known as an ill woodwind that nobody blows good, this relatively new instrument suddenly struck the U.S. mass ear in the 1920s in the hands of Ted Lewis, who made it wail, and reached peak popularity in the pre-World War II days of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, who made it swing. It is still a must in every Dixieland and New Orleans jazz group, but is rare as a hot lick in modern combos. What happened...
...From the wail of motorcycle sirens to the popping of champagne corks, 1931's Symphony Hall safari last night was one long succession of musical mis-chief. Two classmates and 92 members of the Boston Pops lent professional dignity to the merrymaking...
...first-class citizenship-in contrast with the Deep South's defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court's integration decision. Wrote the Chicago Tribune's Reporter Ottley: "There are Negroes who complain that progress in the North is slow. Some even drape themselves in crepe and wail. Actually, the pace is breakneck, sometimes even too swift for the people...
These first two years have proven that Southerners who said it could not be done are wrong. There are the examples of Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, and increased stirring in other states. Far more significant, too, there is the wail of Jim Eastland to his Deep South colleagues that, unless integration in the border states is stopped, it will inevitably spread to his center of Anglo-Saxon purity. But this period, with its trials, disappointments, and its bitterness, has also served to remind people of what Southern liberals have often said--in a sometimes weak and strained voice...