Word: roar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pace never slackened, and the crowd's voice changed from rumble to roar. By the fifth round, Johansson's face was tight with apprehension. Slowly, his guard came down to protect a reddening body. As planned, Johansson was retreating from an attack when Patterson caught him with a rising left hook that landed flush on the side of the jaw. Johansson rolled flat on his back, then got to his knees while Patterson leaned on the ropes and flashed one of the rare, broad smiles of his career. Wobbling up at the count of nine, Johansson was ready...
...dodge like a rabbit, the U.S. destroyer leader Norfolk had little chance of touching her with conventional antisub weapons. But on the Norfolk's afterdeck a clumsy-looking box swung like a gun turret. A section of it tilted, doors popped open, and with a screaming roar a slender rocket slanted upward, trailing a feather of flame. Near the top of the climb the engine section separated, and as the missile curved down toward the sea, two more pieces fell off, releasing a small parachute to check its speed. When the missile hit the water, it freed itself from...
When he was 40, Music Critic Carl Van Vechten was disposed to quit writing critical essays because at that age, he believed, his "intellectual arteries" had hardened. The affliction apparently did him no harm: after that he wrote seven novels about what made the Twenties roar (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven), twelve other books about music and himself, a definitive tome on cats (The Tiger in the House)-and all manner of critical essays, including some on photography, a durable interest in which versatile Van Vechten still excels. Still a chronic essayist, Van Vechten turned 80 last week...
Proudly, the Russian press later reported how a "rocket rushed into the stratosphere with a powerful roar," how "fragments of the foreign-spy aircraft fell through the rays of the May sun." In an effort to prove that a Soviet rocket had scored a direct hit, Khrushchev himself displayed the picture of a thoroughly wrecked plane, at the same time showed off high-altitude pictures of Soviet installations which he said had been recovered from the U2's cameras. This raised an obvious question: How had the cameras survived such a splintering crash...
When Benny's daughter Joan played a squeaky violin, Jack grabbed the fiddle, bashed her over the head with it. When Sammy Davis imitated Dean Martin, a roar came from the wings: "How the hell can I be onstage when I'm still in the toilet?" Most of the humor came from the same direction; "Dino" sang: "Nothing could be finer than to shack up with a minor," and "I'm dancing with tears in my eyes because the girl in my arms...