Word: roar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Kennedy" drew lusty echoes.* L. Brent Bozell-Yale classmate ('50) and brother-in-law of conservative National Review Editor William F. Buckley Jr., intellectual paladin of the Right-listed demands for the U.S. to launch a policy of victory over Communism, and each proposal brought an approving roar from the crowd. Let these orders be issued, said Bozell: "To the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Make the necessary preparations for a landing in Havana." "To our commander in Berlin: Tear down the Wall." "To our chief of mission in the Congo: Change sides." "To the chief...
...second-floor study of Saigon's yellow stucco Freedom Palace, South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem was absorbed in a biography of George Washington, the gift of a recent U.S. visitor. At the sudden roar of an airplane engine, he looked up, hurried out to the balcony in time to see a fighter plane swooping toward him through the early morning overcast...
British Guiana is divided by a long-festering racial struggle between the 294,000 rural East Indians, who gave Jagan his majority, and the 187,000 Negroes, who live in the towns and see Jagan as just another coolie. What set off the up roar was a Jagan budget that he claimed would ''soak the rich'' but seemed more likely to soak everybody, with increased tariffs on consumer goods and a compulsory savings plan. Even a state visit by Prince Philip did not quench the anger among Negro merchants and workers...
...nursing assistant in the mental wards of two California hospitals while he was writing his novel, has used his empathy with the Insider's view of the Outsider's world to tilt the reader's comfortable assumption about the nice normalities, has made his book a roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them. But Kesey's lunatics and his story are full of gaiety too-including a wild ward party complete with wine, women and song. As the Chief says admiringly of Randle P. McMurphy...
...long account with only the briefest mention of France's "miracle of the Marne," where the French at long last halted the German armies, weakened by the loss of the departed two corps and sorely needing the reinforcements Moltke held back. Her book does not capture the roar of battle that rumbles through Gallipoli, by Alan Moorehead, or In Flanders Fields, by Leon Wolff...