Word: roar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Glibert's jibes at Gothic melodrama complemented by some wonderfully quasi-Wagnerian effects by Sullivan. Purists might object to Director Robert Gibson's use of the shorter and weaker of the two second act finales extant and to his omission of the charming duet, "The Battle's Roar Is Over," but by any standards the production is a success...
...every Roman street west of the Tiber was hopelessly snarled with traffic. When Alfredo Ottaviani, Secretary of the Holy Office and senior Cardinal-Deacon of the Sacred College, at last appeared on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica with a retinue of clerics, a vast roar came up from the crowd. "I announce to you tidings of great joy," he intoned hoarsely in Latin. "Habemus papam-we have a Pope. He is the most eminent and most Reverend Lord Cardinal Giovanni Battista...
...drab conservative. Expressing this, he once hung a sign on his motorcycle identifying its owner as THE MILD ONE. He keeps his motorcycle close by him-often parking it right in the middle of a movie set. When the Mild One finishes work, he departs in a shattering roar, bouncing over cables and scattering his colleagues in all directions. The noise affects everyone but Steve, since he is all deaf in one ear and half deaf in the other...
...Start Shooting." A warning cry sounded through the Negro district. Some 400 people charged out of their homes to face the whites, and a deafening roar of insults, obscenities, threats rose from the white men's mob. The Negroes answered in kind...
...dazzling sunlight last week, 30,000 singing, dancing Africans gathered before Nairobi's Ministry of Works. A great roar went up as two solemn men emerged. One was Kenya's British Governor Malcolm MacDonald, resplendent in blue dress uniform. The other, wearing his customary leather jacket and beaded beanie, was burly Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the man who served seven years in jail as the convicted "manager" of the Mau Mau terrorists, and who only three years ago was denounced by the previous governor as "the leader to darkness and death...