Word: roar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Starter Trouble. Lindsay and Petersen sold their first issues at speedways, race tracks, in backyard garages and wherever they heard the roar of motors. By the third issue they were ready to try the newsstands, go ahead confidently on their monthly production schedule, and build up a crew of technical correspondents across...
There was a noisy wait of half an hour or so while bells rang to bring in enough members to form a quorum. Then the House put its sentiments unmistakably on the record, approved the resolution with a roar of "ayes,1- a scattering of almost inaudible "nays...
...right arm. He swore that he would defend the South Carolina and U.S. Constitutions, that he had not engaged in any duels since Jan. 1, 1881, that he would not engage in any while in office. The cheerful, unsegregated crowd of 65,000 whites and Negroes sent up a roar of applause for South Carolina's new governor...
...minutes later the last of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders came out across the railroad bridge; in another quarter hour the span itself went down with the roar of eight tons of explosives. Farther to the west, at the southern end of the last remaining bridge across the Han, Mike Michaelis operated his C.P. from a jeep parked on the sandy approaches of the Han. Michaelis had just been told that his Baker Company had been cut off on the other side of the river...
...with Shakespeare's maturest genius. But the production is a tangle of acting styles-an Edmund sinuous as an Oriental dancer, a Goneril straight out of melodrama; perhaps only Martin Gabel's blunt, forthright Kent keeps its outline. Round the play's great lonely poetic peaks roar the cold winds of human evil and malign fate, the bleak message that...