Word: roar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roar & Croon. Around the courthouses of East Tennessee, Jenkins soon became known as a great trial lawyer. Although he makes most of his income ($60,000 last year) from civil suits, his Tennessee fame has come from criminal cases. In his 34 years of practice, he has been on one side or the other (usually the defense) in some 600 homicide cases. There was hardly a murder or rape case in Knoxville in the past 20 years without Ray Jenkins on one side or the other...
...after a roar of laughter from his listeners): Any woman should distinguish between attractive and indecent dress. If she dresses attractively only, I hardly think she need worry about...
...white-maned old faker, now head of the Soviet delegation to the U.N., commands a dozen voices, from the sly wheedle to the choleric roar, a dozen expressions, from the impish grin to the basilisk glare. For all his arrogance, he is a much more entertaining performer than Russia's wooden men-Molotov, Malik, Gromyko. He is also a remarkable survivor of 37 years of power struggle in the Kremlin. A onetime Menshevik, he came through unscathed when the Bolsheviks put the Mensheviks out of business in 1921. He not only rode out the great purges...
...Peanuts here!" cried one of the boys, and the seller scurried over. "Three bags please," he demanded leaning over and handing me a dollar. I was in the middle of this transaction when I hear a roar and suddenly everyone was standing. When I struggled up most of the players and the crowd were gazing wistfully over the left field fence, and a player was rounding second base. A pall had settled over the crowd, clearly meaning a homerun by the visitors. Everyone sat down...
...skins and tinkling bells. His father Abu Zed, was the potbellied chief of three African villages, and he was thoroughly disgusted with Gadein. Smaller boys outran him and outfought him. The village girls and, indeed, the whole village, laughed at him. "Here comes the lunatic!" the young men would roar. On the night of the great feast, Abu Zed publicly labeled his son: "You pig, you frog, you hyena, you almost-Egyptian...