Word: roar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better & better kicks as I climbed," says Ernie. "In the mine, they became a roar." He sent samples of ore to Ottawa and staked some claims. That Johnson had found uranium was officially confirmed, but the quality and quantity were secret and unknown. It would take a year or two, and tens of thousands of dollars, to prove the ore body...
During these days & nights of increasing Soviet pressure, when the Communists are trying to suppress every democratic thought and every opinion diverging from theirs, during these days & nights of the unceasing roar of U.S. Skymasters supplying Berlin with food, the very last remainder of sympathy for Fascism has died...
...until his slender legs were twisted beneath him. And the times when his big bat did connect were baseball's biggest moments. The spell lasted until the Babe had trotted around the base paths, taking mincing steps on his small feet, tipping his cap to the mighty, reverent roar from the stands...
...Angeles, Lauritz Melchior announced with a Heldentenor's roar that he would put on opera if the Met wouldn't. Said he: "It's a scandal, a disaster. The eyes of the world are turned to America and the greatest country in the world cannot even have an opera house! It looks as if we're only interested in jazz and crooning and all the semi-things...
...passenger in such a plane (the Lockheed TF-80C is the only two-place fighter-type jet in the U.S.) is an oddly soothing sensation. The cockpit is remarkably quiet for a military airplane. Little engine noise gets into it; most of the roar and snarl is blown back with the wake. The air ducts grumble below the floor; a ventilator hisses. When the plane is up to speed, the airstream rushing over the canopy makes a moderate, roar. There is hardly any vibration. Experienced pilots say that the plane handles "like a kiddie-car." When it makes...