Word: roar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admission, gregarious, blustering Defense Secretary Louis Johnson is a man with an elephant-thick hide. But the mounting charges that his heavy-footed economy was wrecking U.S. defenses stung him last week into a trumpeting roar of defiance: "The defenses of the United States as of today are, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, myself, and the President, sufficient unto the needs of the hour...
...Nightmare. Stunned by the dreadful roar of the collision, Mrs. Evelyn Mc-Tootle, proprietress of the nearby Sunset Inn Bar & Grill, thought "a boiler was blowing up." She ran out to the street. A conductor jumped out of one of the trains and yelled at her to turn in an alarm. Mrs. McTootle did as she was told, then filled a cooking pot with water and made for the wreck...
Politics and sex were the topical, tropical themes. The audience shrieked, howled, giggled and roared with delight at the syncopated innuendoes of the Mighty Dictator's unabashed Banana Song,Young Kitchener's eye-rolling Me Grandfather's Clock and a mildly sexy number called If You Love Your Man and Your Man Loves You, Lady, Enjoy Yourself. But the biggest roar, and the judges' nod, went to politically attuned Attila. His Give Up the West Indies, Britain said just what the crowd wanted said...
Sensible Observation. This week, when the two quarterbacks squared off before an S.R.O. crowd of 24,218, the flea bit the bear and put him on the run. LeBaron sent Halfback Bruce Orvis plunging over for the first touchdown and a mighty roar shook the bowl. Then the game degenerated into a huffing & puffing contest between ill-conditioned athletes...
...pointed inner section. Some of the compressed air is diverted by a scoop and used to run a turbine and drive the fuel pump. The rest is mixed with fuel and fired by a small flame that burns in the shelter of the conical igniter. The hot gases roar out through a nozzle lined with heat-resistant ceramic. Their reactions propel the machine through space...