Word: whiningly
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...whine of bullets echoed in the hollow ruins. Deep in the Russian sector, Red mob violence had finally pushed Berlin's government to the city's Western half. But on this side, the people rose some 300,000 strong to shout their defiance of the Reds in one cf the greatest voluntary mass meetings in German history...
Eagerly the crowd closed in on the flag, tore pieces from it. Suddenly the whine of a racing jeep motor sent the people scurrying. Soviet soldiers had finally looked around just in time to see the flag coming down. Their jeep roared up to the gate, swung sharply around to face the crowd from Soviet territory. Five Russian soldiers swung their Tommy guns menacingly; three shots were fired...
...popularity. In fact, attendance has been known to drop after a fatal accident. Critics of the sport have overlooked its obvious, uncomplicated charms. It is fast, hotly competitive, requires skill and nerve and, like most crowd-pleasing American pastimes, involves lots of noise. When half a dozen cars whine down the straightaway inches apart and fling into a screeching slide around a curve, the drivers brush lightly against the wings of death. But as in a tight-rope act, danger is the attraction, not death...
...little trouble at first: besides the roar of planes and auto traffic that plagues all stadium concerts, she got too close to the mike, which turned her tone into a shrill whine. But midway through Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D, audience and critics alike knew they were listening to as powerful and fiery fiddling as they had heard all season. They let famed Violinist Erica Morini know...
...tree, looking out over the field. Under the same tree sat Generals Robert E. Lee and A. P. Hill, planning the day's action and "assisting their deliberations by the truly American custom of whittling sticks." Shells and bullets began to hiss and whine once more; but in his Gettysburg garden Sallie Broadhead's husband doggedly "picked a mess of beans . . . [and] persevered until he had picked all, for he declared the Rebels should not have one." Soon, the smoke of battle grew so thick that gawking young