Word: screechings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wing, reducing its lift. The plane's nose drops. Faster & faster it dives. Louder screams the shock wave. The pilot struggles helplessly with the controls, but the tail surfaces do not respond normally. They cannot pull the nose up. Down to earth shoots the plane, with the screech of a siren...
Next day the Communist Unità gave out a screech that smothered Cantachiaro's crow: "A weekly paper which calls itself satiric and anti-Fascist printed yesterday the complete text of Mussolini's speech, thus offering readers a most beautiful piece of Fascist propaganda. . . . This is an act of evident collaboration ... an act of sabotage. . . . The paper which does it must be suppressed and the responsible person arrested...
...wedding, her husband refused to let the best man tear off the bride's garters and wear them in his hat-"a rude and nasty custom," he barked. At meals he propped a book against the saltcellar, read gloomily. Marie used to hear his Latin pupils screeching as he beat them (if they failed to screech in grammatical Latin, he beat them again). Marie had beautiful hair, but Husband Milton was entirely too occupied combing his own long locks to notice hers...
...weeks before Dijon's liberation, two U.S. paratroopers-boyish Captain William Pietsch (rhymes with screech) and Sergeant Robert Baird-dropped down into the area from England. Also parachuted: automatic arms and mortars for 300 men. The two Americans organized the Maquis, led several small attacks, harried the disorganized Germans right & left. Getting bigger ideas, Captain Pietsch set out in an ancient Buick, drove it through German lines, reached the Third Army, borrowed a few U.S. tanks...
...ship is just sounding the warning [siren screech] and now flak is coming up in the sky with streamers from the warships behind us. ... Now the darkness has come on us. These planes you hear overhead are the motors of the Nazis coming and going in the cloudy sky. . . . [Deep boom']. . . . That was a bomb hit. Another one! Fire bursts and the flak and streamers going out in a diagonal slant (loud crash of ack-ack) right over our head. . . . Flares are coming down now. You can hear the machine gunning. . . . Here's heavy ack-ack now [loud firing...