Word: roar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Domestically, the loudest voice for a policy change was the roar of rage from the California voters who passed Proposition 13 in June, an outcry quickly echoed across the country. Voters were rebelling against the combination of inflation and high taxes that is pinching purchasing power...
...Watergate era, the FBI has been sharply restricted in its undercover activities. FBI agents argue that the only way they could have found out what was happening in Jonestown was to infiltrate the commune. Had that become known, says an agent, "can't you just hear the roar...
...handsome, oversized volume that does as much justice to painters and sculptors as it does to their subjects. Naturalists who can afford it will find this book an invaluable reference. Others may want to take a scissors to it; many of the pictures are so lively that they fairly roar to be released from the pages and freed to hang on walls...
November brought the inevitable: Ed King's coronation, and the defeat of Ed Brooke, the senator whose personal life had become a continuing feature on the Herald-American's front page. The fists were raised again at King headquarters, the frightening roar resounded, and the circus was over...
...King took the issue and played it like a fine instrument, caressing it and keeping it polished, and he carried it out of the September primary with a mandate to reverse the trend in government toward human services and other "wastes." The clenched fists were raised and a throaty roar went up when Ed King beat the Duke, because his people knew the issue could not lose...