Word: roar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Changed Situation. Such liberal pyrotechnics brought the crowd to its feet in a roar of applause. But will it win votes? Ed Viehman, Minnesota's capable, cocky new Republican state chairman, says no emphatically. As proof, he reels off the achievements of the resurgent Republican Party in Humphrey's own front yard: the G.O.P. now controls the Minnesota state senate, Republican P. Kenneth Peterson is mayor of Minneapolis, D.F.L. strength has gradually drained away for the past year, Humphrey's own plurality was cut 81,119 votes in 1954. Governor Orville Freeman is under steady Republican drumfire...
...this week would be an edge of northern Utah, hitherto noted chiefly for peaches, sheep and sugar beets. This unlikely region, in Box Elder County north of Great Salt Lake, is boiling with frantic activity. Strange lights glare in the night, making the mountains shine, and a grumbling roar rolls across the desert. By day enormous clouds of steam-white smoke billow up in a few seconds and drift over hills and valleys. Monstrous vehicles with curious burdens lumber along the roads. All these strange goings-on mark the development of the Minuteman, the solid-fuel missile that its proponents...