Word: roar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infield of the sprawling, 515-acre racing track on the northwest outskirts of Indianapolis. Mechanics toiled over the expensive (cost: $20,000 and up), low-slung cars, built specifically with the big brick-paved track in mind. This week 33 of the world's fastest racers will roar 500 miles around the Brick Yard in quest of fame and some $300,000 in prize money...
Stick to It. Bush teaching is not always that simple; Frontier College instructors have had squabbles with union leaders and with management, sometimes have to roar out lessons above the din of a bunkhouse card game. One teacher told Principal Robinson last year: "Many times this summer I've hated your guts." But the school has few resignations. Most teachers, says Robinson, "stick to it no matter what. The result is respect...
From the union came a roar: "Conspiracy to violate the antitrust laws." Union officials sent letters to Washington, asking the Justice Department to investigate the pact, the National Labor Relations Board to determine whether steel firms could act together on a shutout, since they do not bargain as a unit (U.S. Steel acts as the front man for the industry). But legal experts saw no clear reason why the steel industry could not legally act together on a shutout to protect itself, and the NLRB turned down the union's request because it had made no formal charges...
...companies already equipped to print recording on paper expect mass production to reduce the present 4½?-per-page cost to 2? or less. Main drawback: the stay-at-home subscriber must pay $417 for equipment that will buy him the dubious privilege of hearing his magazine or newspaper roar like a waterfall or merely go bongbong...
...hovered back to consciousness on feet as tremulous as a butterfly's wing. And where Plisetskaya had omitted the famous 32 fouettés (snapped turns) in the "Black Swan Pas de Deux," Timofeyeva whipped them off with a bravura that brought the house alive with a roar...