Word: roar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noon it struck. A howling grey wall of wind and water smashed full against the city. Trees bent over, slowly, grotesquely, then snapped from their roots, were flung aside like chaff. Above the roar of the wind came the rumble of falling masonry, and screams...
...House on World War pension legislation (see p. 17) and cash for the National Law Enforcement Commission. With the House marking time for the Senate to catch up, Congressmen packed into the Senate chamber to watch the final riotous scenes there, to hear hostile Senators shout and roar their political hatred of the Hoover Administration...
Over the course roared the boat in a stiff inverted V of foam. Turning around, she shot down the lake again. Her average time for the two trips was 98.76 m. p. h. That broke the record. To the two men with him Segrave said, "Let's try her once more." Now the engines were warmed up. Miss England II was doing more than 101 m. p. h. on her third run when she swerved suddenly. The whole side of the thin white flying shell seemed to give way. While the roar of the engines still echoed across...
...With a multi-motored roar Carol & friends left Munich with Air Capt. Cristescu of the Rumanian Army at the controls of the big airplane. Across Austria, across the Danube (blue from the air) and across Hungary they flew to Arad, in Rumania. Here Capt. Cristescu replenished his tanks with gasoline and Carol strolled about in mufti, unrecognized...
Meanwhile at 2 p. m., Carol, in the uniform of a General of Aviation, had set out with Prince Nicholas from Cotroceni palace. Wildly cheering throngs delayed him. It was 3:15 when he entered Parliament, ushered by Speaker St. Ciceo Pop, greeted by one vast roar of cheering as boiled-shirted deputies and senators leaped to their feet. To take his royal oath Carol faced not the speaker's table, for that had been removed, but a blazing altar of the orthodox church...