Word: roar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...residents of the little village of Alder, Wash, heard the sedate rumble of her four 1,100 h.p. engines change to a snarling roar as her pilot put her nose downhill through the overcast one day last week. From the clouds 10,000 feet above them she burst into view, fleet, round-bodied. A black speck burst from her left side, grew with incredible rapidity as it hurtled to the ground-an engine. Her sleek left wing swung back, twisted in the air and fell away as her engines alternately roared and growled...
...Nuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus Papam. . . ." ("I announce to you a great joy: we have a Pope.") There was a cheer. He continued, spacing his words dramatically: "Eminentissimum ac reverendissimum dominum meum. . . ." ("My most eminent and most reverend lord. . . .") "Dominum Cardinalem Eugenium. ..." A roar rose from the Square, before the Cardinal could conclude: . . . "Pacelli, qui sibi nomen imposuit Pium Duodecimum." At this news that the new Pope, Eugenic Pacelli, Secretary of State and Cardinal Camerlengo, had taken the name of his predecessor and mentor, the crowd set up a hum and buzz. Then, as excitement gave way to pious fervor...
...announcement of the British plan has evoked a roar of indignation from Jews throughout the world. They contend that the Balfour Declaration of 1917 guarantees them a "home" in Palestine. Undoubtedly this claim is justified. But a "home" is not synonymous with a Jewish National State. It should be remembered too that the Versailles Conference gave the Arabs control of this territory, subject to a British mandate...
...horned helmet and put it on his head. Then he walked over to the mirror and adjusted a bushy moustache under his nose. As an afterthought he added red eyebrows, which, he noted, beetled just right. Macbeth stared at himself a moment and then began to roar out the soliloquy...
...thaws a bit. Lighter and lighter. Then the upward motion stops, and the water drains off the window for the first time in a month. Heavy wrenches clatter against the door bolts. It loosens. A whisper of new air comes in. A whisper, then a hiss, a roar...