Word: roar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night sky, the aircraft whined in a circle above vast McGuire Air Force Base, then touched down and taxied up to a pack of reporters and cameramen on hand to meet the first Russia-to-U.S. civilian flight in 20 years.* There was an intense, high-pitched roar from the twin jets as the sweptwing, silver-and-blue plane rolled to a stop...
...charged again. Aiming a 5-ft. brush like a lance, he carved broad, pink lines running the length of the 25-ft. canvas. From then on, the battle raged with such fury that Mathieu was soaked in paint, turpentine and sweat. Soon the Japanese, usually polite before foreigners, were roar ing with laughter, shouting delightedly after each stroke...
Russian T-34 tanks patrolled the road to Damascus last week, and from the high skies over Syria came the whistling roar of Russian MIG-17 jet fighters. But to Syrians the tank patrols and jet nights were becoming routine: Russian arms have been arriving in Syria in quantity for two years. Damascus itself was calm in the summer sunshine, but whether Syria's plain citizens realized it or not (the heavily censored press gave them little to go on), their country was the No. 1 topic in chancelleries and foreign offices around the world. Cabinets met to consider...
...labor audiences-sometimes by what the London Sunday Times worriedly calls "feline capacity for destructive argument." When Cousins scornfully rejected Harold Macmillan's plea to address the T.U.C. last fall on wage restraint ("What does he think we are? A film festival?"), the congress loosed its loudest approving roar in years. Toward Common Sense. As deeply anti-Communist as Ernie Bevin was, Cousins is unwilling to leave the present cry for higher wages to the leftists. Last year when he was invited to address the businessmen's powerful Institute of Directors, half a dozen businessmen quit in disgust...
...Seattle before he moved to Washington in 1951 to report on Capitol Hill. Covering Congress for TIME, big (6 ft. 2 in., 203 lbs.), greying Jim McConaughy says, has been like "trying to report six fires with each threatening to get out of control, while 19 different fire companies roar up (eight of which are volunteers-and aren't quite sure what they're supposed to do)." Now he will have to send another man to cover the fires while he analyzes the smoke...