Word: roar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several minutes before Junta's match ended, a roar went up from court four. At third doubles, Gravem and Connie Fischer had defeated John McKean and Arnold, 6-4, 6-3, to assure the Crimson of the EIL crown...
...raised his right hand high, and cried in an echo of the flowing Barkley style: "I'm glad to sit in the back row. I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty-"* Then, with the roar of applause and cheers from the 1,200 students ringing through the hall, Alben William Barkley, 78, slumped to the stage, dead of a heart attack...
...infantry division, he marched across 8,000 miles of Russian soil, was severely wounded five times, saw his division lose twelve times its original manpower. In The Cross of Iron, Heinrich does what a good war novelist should and few can. He makes the private inferno of his war roar all over again, but as if for the very first time...
...club's Amman garage, Hussein spent days helping mount a Cadillac engine in a racing car chassis. "We call it the flying bedstead," he told a friend. After the British colonel commanding the Royal Jordanian air force taught him to fly, Amman learned to listen for the afternoon roar of the King's Vampire jet buzzing his mother's palace on his way back from a high altitude joy ride. He delighted in sambas and rumbas, danced late at Amman parties, practically never with his wife...
Across Finland last week a stillness covered the cities like a fresh fall of snow, silencing the roar of traffic. In Helsinki neither trams nor buses ran. People walked, or queued up for the occasional taxis that moved through the city's neglected, ice-encrusted streets. Ships lay idle in Helsinki Harbor, while others stayed gripped by offshore ice because no sailors were around to man the icebreakers. Factories and railroads were closed down. There were no newspapers, no mail. A citizen who slipped on the icy sidewalks could not get into a hospital. He could not even...