Word: roar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still hoping that Son Franklin Jr. might appear, the delegates sat down to listen to a speech by Pennsylvania's Governor George H. Earle. Midway in his speech a lanky youth of 19 stepped out on the flag-decked platform unannounced, sidled toward a chair. With a happy roar, the delegates leaped to their feet, charged up to the platform, shunted Governor Earle aside as they fought to shake the hand of Youngest Son John Roosevelt...
...tide. Already that morning Senator Borah had taken Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee firmly in hand, in three hours helped him draft a Neutrality Resolution with provision for a mandatory arms embargo. Called up the next day, it went through the Senate with a unanimous roar that left its sponsors blinking...
Since money-hugging French Proletarians scarcely think of how much they work in their concentration on how much they earn, the seamen answered with a roar of "Oui!"', rushed back to their ships which sailed with all speed from Havre, while the French Cabinet announced Depression-busting decrees (see col. 3). General grumbling and unrest in French ports last week, with some rioting and shouts of "Hang Laval!" at Cherbourg, showed that the Premier was acting none too soon...
Thomas Ripley's new account of Hardin's gory career is a turbulent, romantic book in which guns roar on almost every page, remorseless pistolmen pink each other with grave aplomb, and hair-trigger gunplay is described in purple passages that smoke and crackle. Although he debunks some Western myths, Author Ripley is more interested in relating good, tall, cow-country tales...
...Thousands of other soldiers and workers, however, are obliged to work all day in the scorching desert country, mending roads that trucks, tanks and tractors smash to bits a few hours later as they roar through the night to the plateau at the capital of [Eritrea], Asmara...