Word: roar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weight and speed took the big (74-ft. wingspan) Heinkel through the top of an apartment house, well into a group of seaside villas beyond. There followed a shattering roar of gas tanks and bombs. Firemen, ambulancemen, air-raid wardens hurried to the flaming wreck. Behind them an eager, half-dressed crowd collected. Windows went...
Heretofore, the inquisitive layman has been forced to stand in awe outside the wooden fence, listening mystified to the dull roar of the great machine. Now, for the first time, he will be able to find out just what is going on inside by reading "Why Smash Atoms?" by Arthur K. Soloman, research associate in Physics and Chemistry, which will be published tomorrow by the Harvard University Press...
...survivor, Thomas H. Jones, said later: "I thought the world was coming to an end. . . ." Said Dr. Harold Thompson: "There was a terrible smash, bang and roar, followed by a queer grinding. ... I was tossed along the aisle of the car. There was utter darkness. The most remarkable thing was the great silence that followed...
...then waving to crowds at Kansas stops all the way to the cool green shade of Emporia (William Allen White was in New York City), and a banquet on baked ham in a stuffy room with scores of postmasters and their ladies. For the tenth time he heard singers roar God Bless America. As he got on the train, said Big Jim: "Thank God we're getting out of the fried-chicken belt." Next morning Fort Worth and Dallas, where a posse of Garnerites hauled him off to breakfast: Cactus Valley grapefruit, Red River County farm eggs, Blossom Prairie...
...young man lay drowsing on the operating table, numbed by morphine and a local anesthetic. Dimly, without pain, he felt the surgeon's electric drill cut through the bony tissue of his deafened ear. Then "a little pinch," and suddenly a great roar, like the waves of the sea. It was the muttered conversation of doctor and nurses, the first sounds the young man had heard in 16 years. For two weeks he lay in the hospital, gradually accustoming himself to the thunder of swinging doors, the drums and tramplings of tiptoeing nurses...