Word: roar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frontier has new sounds: the hum and roar and clatter of powerful machines; for the sagebrush country around
...Ransom Price? The verdict touched off a roar of protest all over the free world. The State Department blasted the trial as "a kangaroo court staged before the klieg lights of propaganda," a "shabby 'conviction'" based on "fabricated charges." In London, the News Chronicle cried: "To make the legitimate gathering of news a crime as the Czechs have done is as severe an indictment of the Communist regimes as there could...
...Town. The summer of 1951 marks the 25th anniversary of Jim Thurber's arrival in New York City. Knowing only Columbus and Paris, he loathed New York at first, with its roar, its dirt, its jostle, and the brash ways of its citizenry. But he got a job as reporter on the Evening Post, which reduced its price from 5? to 3? the day he went to work...
...warmed up their engines. From the bull horns came the command: "White flag. Catapult planes." A lighted wand in the catapult officer's hand described a series of red circles in the darkness (the signal to the pilot to turn up his engine), then swooped down. With the roar of two colliding freight trains, the starboard catapult hurled its plane forward. It thundered off the bow and roared upward into the night, trailed by a blue glow from its exhaust stacks...
...World War II, racked up 51 combat missions, switched to jets. In 1948 Airman Selenger and three other wartime pilots formed the Air Force's famous "Acrojets," flew in 100 air shows across the U.S. While his wife and two children watched from the ground, Lefty would roar through the sky at upwards of 500 m.p.h., with the nose of his F-80 Shooting Star just 18 inches from the tailpipe of the lead plane...