Word: roar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wright concluded his anecdote. There was a brief, controlled roar of approval...
...dash to Chicago and a huge fire in the grain elevators kept the action moving. The fire swung from beam to beam, as its roar came through the loud speaker. Tiny firemen hurled huge geysers of water, in a futile attempt to stop the blaze...
...much psychological as physical. Few expected the levee to withstand the pressure of a predicted 31½-ft. flood crest. After inspecting the inadequate dikes and flood walls, Brigadier General Don G. Shingler, Missouri River Division Engineer, remarked gloomily: "The Missouri is coming with a rip and a roar. We're in a hell of a lot of trouble...
From a distance, the big A-cannon assembly looks like a loaded railroad flatcar, with engine cabs at both ends. When it is ready to leave the road to go into action, the two cabs rev up to a deafening roar and swivel around to push the flatcar sideways (see cut) across the terrain to firing position. Once in position, the cabs help lower the gun bed to the ground and then pull out from under...
Over Mobile, Ala. last week, two Air Force transports - a four-engine C124 Globemaster and a two-engine C-47-collided in midair, and fell with a window-rattling roar. All 15 people aboard the two ships-among them three returning Korean Army veterans and a mother & child -died when the planes crashed on the outskirts of town...