Word: roar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voice is all in," became one of his preludes, and then he would roar: "I tell you, Magnus Johnson knows what is the matter. I got a pretty good farm and I got a good-sized mortgage on it and I got a wife and children and I got 24 cows, and my wife and children milk those cows, too. . . . Jake [Governor Preus] is a lawyer, and I'm glad he is running against me. I tell you, friends, Magnus is a lucky cuss...
...From rollicking laughter and sounds of "Have you heard this one?" the attention of the party was directed to serious, biting and calumnious speeches. It was Marshal Pilsudski's turn to speak. He said many unpleasant things about his critics. Some he called "crooks." Then with one mighty roar: "The insults that have been heaped upon me call for blood!" Up jumped General Szeptycki, Minister of War and one of Pilsudski's bitterest opponents, and accepted the challenge. Seconds were chosen from the now sobered officers. Two limousines left Warsaw "for a secluded spot." Next morning...
...stern chase was long and bitter and the struggle to overcome this lead, with the series dependent upon it, was a magnificent example of fighting spirit. The roar which broke forth after Owen's hit will long echo within the shades of the University. However trite congratulations may seem, we must join our voice with the voice of graduates and undergraduates in congratulating Captain Owen and his team and also in wishing them all success on Saturday at Braves Field...
...still waters of the American Relief have run very deep. Amid the roar of national and international questions, of taxes and tariffs, the work of the administration, unadvertised and almost unnoticed, has been hard and heroic to keep life in the starving, and its record of having distributed during the two-year tenure over a billion and a half of adult and child rations speaks for itself. But apart from supplying food, it has provided medicine and surgery in just as notable proportions. Fifteen thousand hospitals have been kept in equipment, and the doctors of the unit are leaving behind...
...piloted their Fokker T-2 in a country of forests, ravines and canyons, treacherous air currents, and at one point flew most dangerously between the walls of a deep canyon. Yet they pronounced their flight " humdrum," and landed in perfect condition-except for hearing slightly affected by the continuous roar of the motor...