Word: roar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British took this latest war difficulty calmly, as they had taken many a worse one. With patient approval they noted other signs, noted that the roar of heavy bombers sailing south over London had never sounded louder, that the convoys of army trucks rumbling through city streets and village lanes were growing longer, that there were fewer soldiers on furlough, more in battle dress...
...democrat? A Fascist? A megalomania with an appetite for personal power, whatever the label? A natural born, latter-day First Consul-a Fourth Napoleon? Tough old Rightist Republicans like Louis Marin, newly arrived in London after a close call with the Gestapo, throw back their heads and roar when apprehensive Britons ask if France is ready to accept dictatorship (meaning De Gaulle's) after four years of Nazi rule...
Where food is sufficient, the biggest lack is clothing. For silk, rayon or nylon from damaged Allied parachutes, the people will trade almost anything they have. When the peasants hear the roar of Allied transport planes, they hurry into queues before the local barter post, offer corn, potatoes, eggs, poultry, goats, sheep and calves for strips of parachute fabric collected by the Partisan Army...
...roar could be heard for several miles, as huge cakes of ice broke apart, flapped up, stood on edge, ground into each other, crashed and thundered. Most of the 300 citizens (mostly Indians) of Nenana, Alaska, made for the river, to watch a fragile candy-striped tripod anchored in the ice. There was $125,000 riding on that little pole, in bets from soldiers and sourdoughs all over Alaska...
Rose Wilder Lane, novelist (Let the Hurricane Roar, Free Land), mother of two Army sons, told why she had retreated to her Connecticut farm, given up writing for the duration-of the New Deal. Cried she: "I don't see why I should work to support the Writers' War Board, the OWI and all such New Deal piffle while men are dying and there is work to be done at home...