Word: roar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tableau. A roar of cheering and shouted snatches of Fascist songs greeted Premier Mussolini as he entered. Ramrod-backed he deigned to nod, to smile. Then his right hand upraised commanded silence. ... A wrist watch might have been heard to tick. . . . Grasping the laurel with one hand and the roses with the other, Il Duce sat down at his desk, stared straight before him, his gaze piercing and immovable. . . . When Il Duce's dramatic silence had begun to seem permanent, the President of the Chamber, Signor Casertano, at length plucked up courage to open the session, not with...
Benito Mussolini waited quietly until the mob thinned sufficiently for his car to proceed. As he drove away the cheering rose to a roar: "Long live the Duce! .... Death to his enemies! .... Woe to him who touches the Savior of Italy...
...east peasants watched their flocks in the valley of Araxes, allegedly the valley created "Eden" by Jehovah. Suddenly the earth's crust moved, opened a thousand cracks and fissures throughout the great plain of Alexandropol (now Leninakan). Whirling seething earth-masses hurtled and reeled. With a roar like that of thunder, many of the stone buildings of Leninakan crashed in ruins. All electric, gas, telephone and telegraph equipment were thrown out of commission. When communication was restored it was learned that the Near East Relief buildings at Leninakan still stand. and that neither the 9,000 orphans sheltered there...
...some old birds eyed knowingly- one of those loud-droning big creatures with stiff wings that used to fly over Big Ben so often ten years ago. They saw this creature circle Parliament twice, then drive the greedy gulls out of the Thames as it descended with a last roar, a silent glide to the water...
From the ranked tribes there burst an answering roar. The metal snarl of that huge voice sent shivers into their hearts. Yet it was not any god, but only Joseph Griffo, the announcer, his voice trumpeted from the loud speaker whose horns overhung the ring. Tunney, who still had a bathrobe on, smiled slightly and bowed his head. Across from him sat a scowling, unshaven man with a towel over his shoulder. And around them rose the crowd...