Word: roar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...misleads and deceives by many tricks, and takes wayfarers out of the way. Thus, he calls at a distance by beating a tattoo on his swollen abdomen. The noise, as I have heard it, is not unlike the muffled roar of the waterfall near by." Though painted in Japan, La Farge's deep purple glade reflects a typically American feeling for nature as something both seductive and fearful...
More important than the rumbling of the defense debate last week was the roar of a 110-ton Titan intercontinental ballistic missile lifting cleanly into space with 300,000 pounds of thrust. After nine months of frustrating failure at its Cape Canaveral pads (which crews had dubbed "the inferiority complex"), Titan No. B7A got off to its first two-stage flight. Two minutes and 50 miles downrange, its second stage kicked in with 80.000 pounds of thrust, a roar heard round the world because Titan's 41-foot, 24-ton second stage is the largest vehicle known to have...
When young King Hussein set off for his good-will tour abroad last spring, he left the prince in charge of the Council of the Throne. Day after day the royal Mercury would roar through the streets of Amman. Wherever he went, Mohammed demanded full honors; he has been known to seize bodily those who failed to applaud him and turn them over to Bedouin guards demanding that they be flogged. Once, when a limousine with diplomatic license plates was slow getting out of his way, he jumped out of his own car and began shrieking abuse at the offender...
...infantry bumped into a machine-gun nest in the presumably unarmed village, wiped it out with a grenade attack. After that the Israelis placed two tons of dynamite under the village walls and withdrew. One hour later, most of Tawafik's 40-odd houses blew up with a roar that shook the Jordan River valley...
...time. When the dust settled, the miners went back in to clear the rubble with no particular fear, for ledoma (earthquake) is a commonplace to the natives who work the Rand and Free State mines. But then, without warning, the wall along the coal seam collapsed with a roar, and a gale-force gust of wind tossed men, machinery and pit props like feathers in its wake. Ventilation fans were smashed and behind the mile-long debris most of the men lay trapped with 70 pit ponies...