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Word: roar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amidst the slobbering roar of a capacity crowd at McHugh Forum, Boston College's hockey team came off the ropes in the final period with four goals to send an erratic Harvard squad to its second consecutive one-goal loss, 6-5, last night...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Late Eagle Rally Nips Skaters, 6-5 | 12/18/1969 | See Source »

...Crimson maintained the advantage into the third period, but the Mellugh audience, anticipating the customary third-period. Eagle comeback, began to roar. Harvard began to lapse on defense again, allowing the Eagles to penetrate more and more deeply on each rush...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Late Eagle Rally Nips Skaters, 6-5 | 12/18/1969 | See Source »

...desperate Harvard forwards struggled with burly B. C. defensemen in the Eagle corners for possession, the last seconds ticked away to the accompaniment of a tumultuous roar that signaled Boston College's fifth consecutive victory, and its second straight over the Crimson...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Late Eagle Rally Nips Skaters, 6-5 | 12/18/1969 | See Source »

...ares cut across them as they dance, defining their bodies, absorbing them into pure design, and translating design into motion. In another sequence, three dancers in what look like stylized gas masks stand bound together by a length of sheet. Sounds of traffic and drilling blur into an oppressive roar as the dancers writhe against their bondage; and against the bleak gray and black patterns projected behind them and onto the moving drapery. At first we perceive the slide-patterns as abstract, then as endless wooden coffins; only near the end do we realize that the photographs are close...

Author: By Nina Bernstein, | Title: Dance Winter, General Clearance of Evils at the Beginning of at the Hasty Pudding Club, Dec. 4.6 and 10-13 | 12/6/1969 | See Source »

...remaining members of Led Zeppelin should be mentioned. John Paul Jones is a fluent bassist unseduced by the primordial roar or steadfastness of his instrument. but attracted rather to its opportunities for polyphony. Drummer John Bonham's distinguished use of syncopation unifies, maintains, and elucidates each song. Finally, vocalist Robert Plant provides a fourth instrument which counterpoints and impels the gathering thrust of each song. Plant has a theatrical, coruscating voice capable of a range of tones and speech rhythms equalled only by Paul McCartney. Plant is mainly responsible for raising Led Zeppelin above such groups as Cream, Procol Harum...

Author: By Chris Rochester, | Title: The Rock Freak Led Zeppelin II | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

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