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They let themselves go, like Bill Hanley of the Bell A Ranch. He kept a coyote as a pet and when he got too worried he would sit down and yowl and start the coyote yowling with him. He said: "Man's only job is to deliver what is in him to the age he lives...
...through the Kearny's armor. The explosion killed seven men stationed in the forward boiler room on the steaming watch. Its force ripped up through the deck, wrecked the starboard wing of the bridge, knocked the forward stack back and broke the siren cord so that its shrill yowl could not be shut off. Four others disappeared, probably blown overboard...
Before a House subcommittee last month, Major General Thomas Holcomb, Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps, unbagged a cat, which set up a muted yowl. The cat: news that the crack-shooting Marine Corps was less than satisfied with the Garand semi-automatic rifle, Army-sponsored successor to the reliable, bolt-action 1903 Springfield. With a firm grip on the cat's collar, General Holcomb said discreetly: "We are not certain yet that the Garand rifle will meet our needs. We will know in the course of the next two months whether it is a better rifle than...
...Tyrannosaurus, king of all prehistoric beasts, yip, yowl or yodel? Was he a tenor, or a bass?", wrote Hal Roach Studios to Alfred S. Romer, professor of Zoology and expert in paleontology...
...quaking: 1) Week ago Tuesday night A. P. Correspondent John Lloyd spoke over NBC from Paris at 8:30 EDST (1:30 a. m. Paris time). "The situation is now definite," he was explaining. "There are no more doubts. ..." when suddenly he was drowned out by a giant banshee yowl. "The air raid sirens are now bawling," Reporter Lloyd shouted, and he was heard no more. But the growling, whining, shrieking sirens wailed into U. S. listeners' ears for two full minutes. Then the Paris transmitter quit, and the world heard no more from Paris for six or seven...