Word: roar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aerojet into a brief downward glide. Commercial airlines shied away from Jato because of the cost (the $185 bottle can only be used once) and the fact that the take-off roar scared spectators. But military orders sent Aerojet soaring again-jet planes such as the B-47 use 18 Jato units for a quick takeoff...
...sailor in Malta asked for the roar of the crowd when his soccer team (Tottenham Hotspurs) scored a goal; another wanted to hear his favorite pub owner calling the traditional closing-time chant: "Time, gentlemen, please!"; an airman asked for a "cockney barrow boy selling his wares." Oddest request came from a lonesome telegrapher in South Africa: he wanted to hear again the thunder of airplanes roaring low over his home just before they landed at London Airport...
...grabbed for his brakes, threw his motors into reverse-but he was too late. With a roar like an exploding artillery shell, the first car of the 6:13 buried itself, full length, in the last car of the 6:09. Both were crowded smokers; in one grinding and convulsive moment they were telescoped into a great steel package of mangled bodies, torn cushions, broken glass and twisted metal. Thin cries rose in the sudden silence...
...That Way. From then on, as Benny himself remembers it, "they were shrieking. They wanted to tear the place down." For three solid hours it went on, through One O'Clock Jump, Dixieland One-Step, I'm Comin' Virginia, Shine, Big John's Special. A roar went up after Trumpeter Harry James's first solo. There were screams after Benny's first liquid clarinet work, and Pianist Jess Stacy's five choruses in Sing, Sing, Sing. For the last half-hour, Drummer Gene Krupa, openmouthed and gibbering, never stopped the beat...
Captain Brad Quackenbush was welcomed by an elephantine roar from the crowd...