Word: roar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be replaced by buses. Traffic in the Square will become a little more congested, and the carbon monoxide fumes a little thicker. But down below, the lights will still cast their eerie shadows, and footsteps will rattle in the sooty vaults to the same regular, timed changor and roar of the subway
...Doubleday; $3.95), is an authentic novel about South Africa, in which a self-righteous white superintendent snaps his bureaucratic whip once too often in a native "location." Johannesburg Lawyer-Novelist Harry Bloom, who jars the conscience by way of the solar plexus, all but makes audible the "roar of the lion" in 12,000 black throats...
...ancient Negro farmhand, milked some cows, Joe walked out to the farrowing barn that he built while he was still in high school. In one of the six concrete-floored stalls lay a monstrous (upwards of 600 lbs.) Duroc sow with eleven week-old pigs. She gave a grunting roar as Joe eased a trough past her jaws to the floor and filled it with slop from a bucket. Joe worked carefully, talking softly: a sow with new pigs is one of the farm's most dangerous animals, both to humans and to her pigs. If not fed with...
...just waiting for the letters to roar in from unthinking Roman Catholics who will endeavor to point out that because we left the word "Protestant" in the legal title of the Episcopal Church, we have therefore given up the claim to Catholicity. I only hope that some day, in the providence of God, these people will realize that "Protestant" and "Catholic," when used correctly, are not contradictory, but complementary. The opposite of "Catholic" is "Roman...
...defense, Army's big line was gang-tackling with wicked exuberance; Penn State Star Lenny Moore could hardly get started. By the end of the first half, Army was in front, 21-0. Only for ten minutes in the third period did the Lions roar at all, and then they got only one touchdown. In the last quarter, Army all but pushed them off the field, scored twice more to finish the game in front, 35 to 6. His sad song over, Coach Blaik was already whistling up a new tune for this week's march into Michigan...