Word: roar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horse off to a quick lead; when two other horses threatened to overtake him, Willie quickly went to the whip, drove hard all the way to the finish. The Hoop won by a neck, and the crowd at California's Golden Gate Fields sent up a roar. The roar was not for The Hoop but for Willie, the winningest jockey in history, and for his record-breaking 391st victory this season...
With puckish grin and rolling eye, he surveyed the achievements of two years of Tory government. "We are not without some satisfaction," he said, and the understatement got a roar. "Danger is farther away than when we went into harness . . . Recovery will grow surer and firmer as the clattering months roll...
...exhibition of mass calisthenics, and drops his pants in the act, is a hilarious bit of nonsense that is somehow brought off without dropping the mood of the film at the same time. "Goodness," says mother, as father's pants hang about his knees and the spectators roar, "I must remember to fix those...
Measured in terms of laughter and anger, the conference was as lively as anything since the testiest press go-rounds of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. There was a roar of good, natural laughter when the President expressed the modest certainty that the State Department would not ignore the suggestions of his brother Milton, after his five-week goodwill trip through Latin America. There was reportorial anger over the news leak on the Warren appointment (see PRESS). And the President in turn was angered when a reporter asked for his version of ex-Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin...
...with his famed bolo punch. From the tenth round on, Basilio's left eye was swollen shut; he fought on half-blind, but when he landed one, the champion's knees buckled. At the 14th round, the crowd was on its feet cheering; at the 15th, the roar drowned out the bell-both champion and challenger kept slugging away until the referee stepped in. On the officials' score cards, Gavilan's masterful boxing overrode both Basilio's early advantage and his later courage. The decision: Gavilan, by a split vote...