Word: roar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preceeding the College Young Democrat's banquet at the Hotel Continental. The advance work by his undergraduate supporters attracted a large crowd. His speech was restrained, but the crowd liked him. McCarthy drew them in with the classical oratorical trick of shouting out a question and letting the audience roar back its reply...
...first special in the National Geographic Society series, focused mostly on 51-year-old twin brothers, Frank and John Craighead, a pair of wildlife biologists who track, drug, tag, and record the habits of grizzlies in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. Best shot: a bear wakes with a roar from his drug-induced slumber and charges head-on into the side of the Craigheads' car. The Craigheads, though, are the real stars; urban viewers can only admire the intelligence and understanding with which they impart to their children a respect and fascination for natural life...
...roar of cannons and fire works bursting in air, Montreal's Expo 67, last week closed down the turnstiles to what had been, by almost all measures, the most successful world's fair in history. In the surge of last-day crowds, souvenir hunters made off with a guitar autographed by the Beach Boys from the U.S. pavilion and a nativity crib from the West German pavilion. But no amount of petty vandalism could sully Expo's singular triumph: in just six months the fair had racked up a total attendance of 50 million*-20 million more...
...last-minute Dartmouth field goal thwarted a Harvard fourth-quarter comeback and gave the Indians a 23-21 victory today. After seeing Harvard roar back from a 20-0 deficit, Dartmouth drove from its own 30 yard line to the Crimson 5 yard mark before the Harvard defense halted the drive. The Dartmouth field goal try was wide, but a Harvard offside penalty gave Indian kicked Pete Donovan another chance. He made...
...pandemonium somehow endearing. Their record of Seven Drunken Nights, a woozy chronicle of just what its name implies, has passed the quarter-million sales mark, with Black Velvet Band just behind. Two weeks ago, a sellout crowd of 25,000 at Dublin's National Stadium matched the group roar for roar, and last week The Dubliners headed an all-Irish bill at London's hallowed Albert Hall...