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Word: roar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Exercise Long Horn, the vast Army-Air Force mock war in Texas, the green-clad Aggressor forces had just seized a position deep behind the defenders' lines and were massing for a new attack. Suddenly a blank mortar shell exploded over the invaders' heads with a roar and a burst of smoke. The umpires stunned the Aggressors with a terse ruling: 1,600 of their men had just been put out of action; the exploding shell symbolized a devastating hit by a revolutionary new weapon, atomic artillery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Atomic Pinpoint | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...contrast to this slow tempo is the terrifying speed of two motorcyclists, agents of Death. When Orpheus has abandoned his pregnant wife for Death, an ominous roar is heard and suddenly, Eurydice is struck down by the cyclists. Meanwhile, Orpheus is listening to obscure poetry over the radio in the Rolls, tragically ignorant of what has happened...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: Orpheus | 4/8/1952 | See Source »

...crowd reacted with a roar of delight. It surged 15 deep against the police lines. It jostled and milled across the hotel lawns, and smashed flower pots in a wild effort to get closer. It chanted: "Eleanor Roosevelt zindabad!" (Long live Eleanor Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Way Things Are | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...Opposition exploded with a roar. "Woolton! Woolton!" stormed Laborites, shaking their fists at the Peers' Gallery where, next to the Duke of Edinburgh, looking down on the budget proceeding, sat Lord Woolton, one of the powers in the Tory Party. As wartime Minister of Food, Woolton had introduced food subsidies ; during last autumn's election campaign he said emphatically that the Conservatives did not plan to cut them. "More broken promises!" cried a Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Tory Budget | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...attic. The best thing about Partch's music was that it seldom got in the way of the actors, who half-spoke, half-sang the lines. After four curtain calls for the actors, Composer Partch, in deep purple shirt and tweed jacket, came onstage to a roar of bravos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Goblin Music? | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

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