Word: roar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrate. While people around the world listened with deep anxiety, Major Cooper seemed cooler than any man on earth. Finally, he piloted his craft into the atmosphere, and his communications blacked out. After four minutes of excruciating silence from space, he was sighted by radar-and moments later, a roar of triumph came from sailors aboard the carrier Kearsarge, 115 miles east-southeast of Midway. Four miles off the port bow, Cooper's orange and white chute floated down through a brilliant blue sky. He was safe-he had done what his equipment could...
...minutes and 30 seconds later, a 600,000-mile shot that hit almost directly on target--the astronaut came down just short of four miles from the Kearsarge and jokingly apologized for not getting closer. On ship, he was greeted by a red carpet, a band and a roar of cheers from 1,600 sellers...
...fouled in the process. Barnett sank the free throw, and Boston's lead was only a point. The next basket would tell the story. Cousy floated a jump shot toward the basket. The ball banged the rim, caromed crazily into a tangle of flailing arms. A roar went up. Laker Rookie Gene Wiley had the rebound. Then a groan. Again, Tommy Heinsohn stole the ball, went up to shoot and was fouled by Wiley. Los Angeles fans chanted "Miss it! Miss it!" Heinsohn's hawklike face was expressionless. Swish! One point. Swish! Another. Score: Boston 110, Los Angeles...
Prayers on the Ledge. Two young Frenchwomen, who were dawdling along behind the party, heard the roar of the oncoming flood and managed to scramble up the rock wall to a ledge 12 feet above the ground. "The water rose higher and higher," said one. "It gradually reached our feet, then our knees. We could not see the others, but we heard their cries. Soon we heard nothing but the thundering water. We clung to the ledge and prayed.'' Those two were saved, but when the flood subsided three hours later, the muddy floor of the gorge...
Amid the full-throated roar of straining engines and the squeals of hot rubber biting into turns, a 1963 Ford Galaxie blazed across the finish line last week to win the Atlanta "500" stock car race. Ford also had entries in last week's Sebring twelve-hour endurance race in Florida, will have aluminum Ford engines powering two racers in the Indianapolis "500" Memorial Day. In fact, Ford is racing all over these days, openly defying both its critics and a six-year-old industry pledge against racing or ballyhooing of speed and horsepower in order to sell cars...