Word: roar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...densely packed mob is steadily increasing in volume. There is a stir on the small balcony of the building at the extreme end of the plaza, a short, black-shirted, uniformed figure steps briskly to the balustrade, and the low hum swells instantly to a tumultuous roar which becomes ever louder as the minutes wear by. On the balcony the little man throws back his head, swings himself to and fro with both hands on the rail, rolls his eyes, and makes frightening grimaces. Gradually 1the tumult subsides, and Mussolini begins to speak...
...southwestern U. S. grew suddenly, hellishly luminescent, just before dawn one day last week. A meteor had passed with the howling roar and ripping draft of a monster express train. The pilots of two mail planes were aloft close enough to the phenomenon to bring precious new information down to scientists...
Columbia's most difficult program has been the March of TIME, engineered by Richard Stuart and Mason Escher. It has used sound effects varying from the roar of cannons to the voice of Samuel Insull's conscience...
Precisely 38 minutes after it had taken up H. R. 1491 the House passed it with a unanimous roar. Trusting their new President to do right, members voted it blind, without a single word's change. Under the Roosevelt spell the House's deliberative session became a ratification meeting...
Driving an automobile at 253 m.p.h. you hear, not the roar of the motor, but a loud whistling made by the wind rushing into the cockpit where a vacuum might develop if there were not a small hole in the windshield. You see, through a pocket of glass, your car's long bonnet with a motor-revolution gauge a little to the right of where other cars have a radiator cap, outlined sharply against yellow sand. At one edge of your line of vision is a dark line made by a crowd of spectators and, on the other side...