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When noisemakers hooted endlessly at RPI games, creating such a defeaning roar that players could not hear the official's whistle. (The NCAA Competition Committee's "RPI Rule" now makes use of such rattles illegal...
...other job." A 15-year veteran of forest fires, Humphrey has had only one day off in a month, but says he would keep on working for free. As he talks, nearby flames shoot several hundred feet up a Douglas fir in a matter of seconds. The tremendous roar is followed by the thunder of a "widowmaker" -- a falling tree -- crashing through the dense smoke. Soon other trees ignite almost spontaneously in an effect known among fire fighters as crowning. "Those flames can leap across the treetops faster than you can run," warns Humphrey. "This fire is a real tenacious...
...grown, comes home for a visit, throws the door open, and just the way he used to 15 years ago, looks her in the eye and asks, "Anyone home?" Her adult kids still lock themselves in the bathroom till the dishes are done. Leftovers? Sure, but we roar for more...
...Francisco are discussing the novels of Tanizaki. "The cuticles are very important," the woman proclaims, wiggling her toes furiously. "Very important. I learnt that in class last Wednesday." "Hunh, what?" exclaims her equally naked, equally graying male companion. "That's wisdom flowing through you, knowledge," she explains above the roar and recession of the waves. "That's energy being liberated, energy being balanced." "Whatever it is," mutters her friend, "it sure feels good...
Earlier, the Canadiens had drawn a thunderous roar from the Forum crowd of 16,829 during a stretch in the latter part of the first period and early in the second, when they killed off penalties that had them playing at least one man short for 5:06. At one point, they were at a 5-3 manpower disadvantage...