Another scream sounded through the night, followed by a desperate call for help.

Last April, she got a desperate call from a neighbor whose daughter needed a prom dress.

A desperate call came into the drab offices of the domestic workers' union here one recent afternoon.

Again there floated up to her the desperate call for help.

The male be- side him stared in confusion; he hadn't heard the desperate call.

It was a desperate call for help from a desperate man.

Finally out of money and abandoned by his manager, he made a desperate call one night to his father.

Her desperate 9-1-1 call was released during the trial, which caused a lot of reaction by the public.

The girl filled up the silence in his mind with a desperate call for help.

The team had members from 18 states, and when the news reached their families, they made fervent, desperate calls to the campus.