Word: bellowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...columns, Washington Merry-Go-Rounder Pearson rehashed some old stories about McKellar's choleric temper and his insatiable hunger for patronage. That afternoon the bulb-nosed Senator took advantage of a large audience, proceeded to bellow for over an hour what he chose to title "Personal Statement about a Lying Human Skunk." Excerpts: "Pearson is just an ignorant liar, a pusillanimous liar, a peewee liar, even if he is a paid liar. . . . When a man is a natural-born liar, a liar during his manhood and all the time, a congenital liar, a liar by profession, a liar...
Bill Jack loves to grab the public address microphone in his Cleveland plant and bellow important news to his "associates" (employes). Last week the president of Barnumesque Jack & Heintz (Jahco), who contends that the War Department is renegotiating him into the red, told them something that hit home to each & every one. His news was a plan to 1) partially circumvent renegotiation, 2) build up a reserve for postwar expansion...
...Later they eluded the police by sawing a hole through the iron railings around the park. Once they constructed a fiddle to frighten the neighbors. It had a box four feet long, three feet wide, and two feet deep, and a bow twelve feet long. It emitted an unearthly bellow...
...hoarse, warning bellow tore through the fog of postwar shipping plans last week, set Britons tooting nervously. Back in Washington from a three-week visit to London, U.S. Maritime Commission's Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery announced that he had told the British the U.S. "had become a maritime nation and intended to remain one; that we would do it by cooperation if they wanted to but, if they 'didn't want to, we were going to do it anyway. . . . But ... it is much better to do it in cooperation . . . than to start a wrangle...
...Cotton Ed got so interested in his work (denouncing New Deal regimentation) that he skipped a paragraph, turned the page of his script and came upon the middle of an entirely unrelated sentence about gasoline rationing. Twenty interminable, script-shuffling seconds later listeners on 118 stations heard his frustrated bellow...