Word: roar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days when the rubber truncheon was standard equipment on a muddy gridiron, football was the sport of gentlemen-mastodons with handlebar mops hanging over their snarling lips. Slipping out of their four-button sack coats, doffing their celluloid collars, and carefully folding their string-ties, an aggregation would roar out of a gaslit locker-room to pull every play in the book, and some still in manuscript. Grabbing moustaches was worth a slight penalty, but the pile-on, the straight-arm, and an occasional sapping with a clenched fist were all "part of the game." For eleven such people...
...Government would not listen. The crowd's patience changed, to sullenness, to anger; shouts became a frenzied roar. Socialist Vice Premier Pietro Nenni tried to mollify them. Later, a shirtless young man in blue overalls said...
...space ships of the future will not roar through the solar system, pushed by the blazing force of their atomic engines. Instead, they will coast in graceful curves, riding gravitational pulls as a glider rides the upward currents in the air. So thinks red-haired Professor (of astronomy) Samuel Herrick, 35, of the University of California at Los Angeles. Last week he was teaching an eight-man, two-girl class the delicate art of interplanetary gliding...
...just one in the first two games. In the third game he finally bunted an easy roller down the third base line-and wound up, grinning and a little ashamed of himself, on first base. The bunt set off the mightiest roar heard in Fenway Park-and St. Louis modified its radical "Williams" defense. But Lone Wolf Williams might have to do a lot of talking before the Red Sox or any other team pays him the $80,000 he wants in 1917. Said Babe Ruth, the only baseballer ever to get $80,000 in one season: "A great hitter...
...Commerce Department-doubtless thinking that this was an opportune time to embarrass the President-had given a copy to Columnist Drew Pearson, who intended to publish it. PM's I. F. ("Izzy") Stone somehow got a copy too. Other newspapermen demanded to see it. When the press roar became unbearable, bewildered Presidential Secretary Charlie Ross told Commerce to release the letter, and Commerce did. When Harry Truman heard that the letter would be released he was, according to a friend, in "a state of near-hysteria...