Word: roar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start and steady stroke shot the Royal Blues into an early lead, and they cut inside. The announcer said that Oxford was two lengths in front and going strong. The ex-Tommy cut his offer-a half a crown to a shilling. Still no takers. Outside, a polite British roar came from both sides of the river as Oxford came into view round the final bend...
...Ottawa last week Pat Conroy, secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Congress of Labor, made a prediction: at least 200,000 members of the C.C.L. unions will be involved in campaigns for wage increases "within the next two months." Before he spoke, the roar had already begun...
...Zero plus 30 minutes, if Admiral Blandy gives the order, two Mariner flying boats, equipped with Geiger counters to measure radioactivity, will roar across the lagoon, 40 feet above the water. If they report and if their report is favorable, a pair of helicopters will flutter down to take samples of the atom-stirred water. Then six small gunboats, also with Geiger counters, will approach the dread lagoon, sampling the water and reporting by radio. Next, a swarm of 20 launches, manned by raincoated scientists, will scoot like water bugs among the stricken ships. Finally, if all pioneers report that...
...affair was purely domestic: some civil servants obviously had acted, if not treasonously, at least unpatriotically in giving away - or perhaps selling - atom-bomb data and other information. Unperturbed by international hubbub (and inexperienced in it) Canada concentrated on tidying up her own house, and ignored Moscow's roar for the time being (see INTERNATIONAL...
Last week-more than six months after the first atomic bomb exploded-the New Mexican soil which melted to greenish glass was still aboil with radioactivity. Fragments weighing only a fraction of an ounce caused a continuous roar when held near a Geiger-Muller counter, a gadget which clicks once when an ionizing particle passes through it. Ionizing particles zoomed out of the fragments so fast that the clicks they made as they passed through the counter could not be distinguished individually...