Word: roar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book, The Southern Case for School Segregation (Crowell-Collier; $3.95). But though diehard racists will doubtless thrill to its themes, as they have thrilled for years to Kilpatrick's racist editorials in the News Leader, the book is really a swan song-Editor Kilpatrick's last roar of defiance in what even he now concedes is a lost cause...
Last week a Baltimore crowd began to cheer at the sight of the first Secret Service helicopter over the trees. When Kennedy eventually landed, he needed only to smile to draw a swelling roar. The motorcade drove six miles through streets lined with what Baltimore police called the biggest political crowd in the city's history-the estimate was 175.000. In the Fifth Regiment Armory, on the site of the hall in which Woodrow Wilson was nominated in 1912. Kennedy was greeted by an honor guard of Negro R.O.T.C. cadets, a band from St. Mary's School...
Raising Standards. After considering rival bills for months, leaders in both houses of Congress heard the wail of public anguish and feared that it would turn into a roar of indignation. They quickly got together and hammered out the reasonable compromise that Kennedy signed. Pleased spectators at the signing were the Food and Drug Administration's Commissioner George P. Larrick and Dr. Frances O. Kelsey. who kept thalidomide off the U.S. market...
...many of them had economized by bringing their own lunches and taking them down to the cafeteria in the basement. In the boiler room next to the cafeteria, the watch engineer had just stepped out to cash a check. It was 12 107. With a reverberating, mind-stopping roar, one of the three steel boilers, 15 ft. long and 5 ft. across, exploded at one end. The escaping steam roared out through the aperture with the thrust of a rocket, drove the boiler through the wall into the cafeteria, on through the ceiling into the first-floor accounting office, then...
Bartl's kick went off beautifully and a roar came up from both sides of the stadium. But this time the call went against Harvard: Bartl's kick had missed by about six inches, the officials declared...