Word: roar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airport, desperate and weary. Alarms went out; planes and ships headed out into the storm, to criss-cross Lake Michigan, looking for wreckage. Close to the hour when the Northwest aircoach was due over Milwaukee, a woman on the Michigan lake shore near Benton Harbor had heard a plane roar low, thought she saw a burst of flame over the water. A retired Navy captain reported the same thing-a flash that rivaled the lightning, "flames for a number of seconds-nearly a minute, then light smoke in the lightning's glare." He took a quick bearing...
...rhythmic clip-clop of hoofs tapping down Roosevelt Raceway's brown half-mile oval was smothered by a swelling roar from the stands as the six-horse field came into the final turn. With less than a quarter-mile to go, a fast-stepping brown mare named Proximity, unbeaten in her five starts this year, had not made a move out of her third-place rut along the rail...
...race was scheduled to start at 10 a.m., but as usual supercharged crowds, festive and hungry for thrills, began gathering outside Indianapolis Speedway at dawn. By race time, some 150,000 had crammed their way into the stands and infield to watch 33 underslung, overpowered little cars roar around the 2½-mile brick and asphalt track in the annual 500-mile grind...
...magnified ticker tape flickering across the screens at the four corners of the great room to catch the flash on the price. Not till ten minutes later, a long time by Wall Street's split-second standards, did the tape flash, the first sale-and bring a roar of approval from the floor. The sale: a 25,000-share bloc worth $2,243,750 was sold for 89¾, up 2¼ points from the previous close and within an eyelash of G.M.'s all-time high...
With a thundering roar, 467 tons of explosives blew...