Word: roar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue of TIME, Aug. 18, there is a picture of a little mouse undergoing, as the caption reads, his "Fatigue Test" . . . Vivisection constitutes a dark shadow in the history of any nation. We can take hope, however, in the ground swell that is arising. Until it becomes a roar of public disapproval, the little mouse will have to continue his "Fatigue Test," until from sheer pain and despair, he will close his tiny eyes and sleep, and his captors can hurt him no more...
...also finds that he is no longer quite so sure what success is. Some days, even after his most stupendous feats, with the stadium roar pounding in his head, he is most downcast. One thing he is sure he wants is Memo Paris, the manager's redhaired, teasing niece. But what Memo wants is fun and money, big money. The temptation to get that money the fast, easy way by helping to throw a playoff game brings Roy to his final tragic crisis...
Because Saturday's millions would rather roar over touchdowns than goal-line stands, "defense is something of a stepchild in today's football." Present rules give the offense a slight edge over the defense, and the two-platoon system also makes the offense relatively stronger...
Next morning at 9:30, after waiting for Europe's famed Simplon-Orient Express to roar along the nearby tracks on its way from Sofia to Istanbul, the Greeks opened fire with machine guns and mortars. After 60 minutes' bombardment and no reply, four bedraggled Bulgars crept off the sandbank and sloshed across the river into the woods on the Communist side. By nightfall, despite a constant barrage of propaganda insults on the Bulgarian and Greek radios, and much continued fluttering at U.N., General Manidakis was able to report that all was quiet on the Evros front...
...bones. But if you break a nation's nationality, it will think of nothing else but getting it set again." In the late 19th century and early 20th, when the bone of Gaelic nationality was painfully being set, Ireland found voice to curse, plead, moan, gasp, roar and sing out a literature as great and sudden as any of modern times...