Word: roar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this, cries of "hear, hear " rose to a roar from the Labor benches; the Tories responded only desultorily. In the brief debate the Tories were uneasy and reticent. To a demand for more details, Eden responded with the weary patience of a worried nursemaid to a pestering child, begging his questioners to avoid pessimism until the full texts were published. To Eden's embarrassment the most lavish praise came from the Bevanites...
...mother who sleeps through the roar of an airplane overhead but leaps up at the first little whimper from her baby is not necessarily sleeping less soundly or restfully than her husband. Impulses from the higher brain centers are "fired back" to the waking center, and the mother has conditioned herself to respond only to certain ones...
...engineers watched, the 707 's four jets started up with a low whine that rose to a scream, then a roar. The engine tests took three days. Then the chocks were pulled from the wheels, and the big plane rolled down the runway, circled and rolled back again, swaying as Chief Test Pilot Alvin M. Johnston checked rudder and ailerons, bucking as he eased on the brakes. On an earlier taxi test, the 95-ton ship had snapped a landing-gear support, had to be sent back to the shops for repairs (TIME, May 31). Last week "Tex" Johnston...
...dramatic mission. It is the "navy" of the offshore oilmen, and never did stranger ships sail on more venturesome voyages. Some of the craft bristle with giant cranes; others grow forests of steel columns as tall as Douglas firs. All of them clank and roar with violent machinery. Alongside conventional ships built for more seemly duty, they look as clumsy as cassowaries splashing in a lake of swans...
...equipped with suitable transmitting equipment, said Professor Lovell, the telescope could bounce a radar pulse off the moon and get an echo 2½ seconds later not as a faint pip but as a deafening roar. It might also get echoes from Venus and Mars. If there were a spaceship cruising near the moon, the telescope could track it easily. If spaceships ever cruise among the planets, such giant dishes may guide them through space like the radars that help airliners land on fogbound, present-day airports...