Word: roar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barely visible in the shimmering distance, made you think of the adventures of the Count of Monte Cristo. You could take a little boat and sail out toward the Cháteau. And you would go under the great bridge which opened and shut with a clanging roar as if to snap up the boats which passed below. Near by were the big ships, for there the water is deepest. Behind lay the little fishing boats with their many-colored sails being stitched up by the fishermen; above, burning in the sun, the golden image of Notre-Dame...
...vigorous and picturesque bourgeois liberal in half a century of Chilean politics, Alessandri succeeded in provoking a new storm of discussion. But the Government prudently declared a plebiscite unconstitutional. A Congress majority, from Radicals through Democrats to Conservatives, was for the break. The Lion of Tarapacá's roar turned out to be neutrality's swan song...
Bomb bursts and gun cracks are not the only war noises that shatter or dull the mechanism of the human ear (TIME, Nov. 2). The racket and roar of heavy machinery is also a menace. To quell such clamor, some workers use plugs of cotton, rags, rubber, wax. These are not always sanitary, are sometimes dangerous...
Most thrilling sequence in Inside Fighting China is its picture of the Battle of Taierchwang. The Chinese lie in wait in the hills while the camera hovers over the Japanese columns advancing along the roads below. Then with a roar the Chinese swarm down, utterly smash the Japs...
...through the Florida Everglades, left young Donald convinced that an amphibious vehicle could have saved many lives. So he built an expensive, well-equipped machine shop on his estate, hired experienced workers, on the fourth try put a lumbering boxlike four-ton monster through its paces. With a terrible roar it clambered through mangrove swamps, crunched eight-inch trees, splashed over bayous. Donald promptly named his new machine Alligator, went to work on bigger & better models...