Word: roar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What mesmerized Asahi Science readers-and in three days sold out an extra-run issue of 100,000-was an ingenious application, by Tokyo Institute of Technology Professor Yasushi Hoshino, of an old sound-recording technique. Niagara's roar was magnetically and invisibly etched in the insert page's brown ink, exactly as sound tracks are laid on magnetic tape...
...year-old U.S. citizen who has lived in America on and off for half a century and now resides permanently at Remsenberg, L.I. The blurb to his new book of ten short stories suggests that "the sound of [his] clicking typewriter keys beats a gentle staccato against the roar of the ocean surf." The volume is recognizable Wodehouse, gently satirical, its barbs wielded with whimsy. But the more remarkable thing about Pelham Grenville Wodehouse in his twilight years is the way the decades of ocean-hopping have scrambled his language until all international date lines and regional distinctions tend...
...Pledged free elections, heard his supporters roar back, "No elections!" Replied the Prime Minister piously: "This shows to what extent politics have become discredited in Cuba...
...stern taskmaster. Kiphuth demands all-out effort, is apt to roar at a swimmer dawdling through his paces: "If you want to take a bath, get a cake of soap." During a hopping exercise, the coach scowled scornfully at a boy who had twisted an ankle, barked: "Get up and hop on the good one." But his swimmers like him. Says one: "A wishy-washy coach who sympathizes with you is no damn good...
...roar of self-righteous voices raised against the "horrors" going on in Cuba is being heard from one end to the other of the country. This outcry would have more validity if a similar outcry had reverberated for the past six years when the horrible torturing of people by the "government" of the unspeakable Batista, for no reason even rationalized, except to keep a dictator in power, was the order...