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...same aura about his crusade. Old movies around the fireplace may be fun, but nothing like this. He is an actor who has found the biggest stage in the world, who rises every day and puts on the grease paint and the smile and waits for the roar of the crowd. Some medical authorities suspect that the continuing applause for Reagan is one reason his hair has not turned gray...
...guns, a sound that no human ear had ever heard before? For Winston Churchill, who visited France to see the war firsthand, the crescendo rose "exactly as a pianist runs his hands across the keyboard from treble to bass." For Private Frank Gray the thunder was "one roll, one roar, which never diminished and never increased, and which, indeed, imagination refused to conceive could be increased." After listening to a similar barrage, a U.S. Marine exulted: "I never want to have a grander feeling or I'd just naturally...
...make the rules vote unanimous. "No, no, tell them to leave it alone!" decided Jordan. Like Strauss, he was anxious not to bruise Kennedy further. A few minutes later the report of Kennedy's withdrawal came over the TV sets, and the Carter men let out another roar. The size of their victory, 545.8 votes, clearly lifted the President's aides. From his mountaintop at Camp David, the President had a different view. He told Strauss later in the evening that Kennedy had telephoned him. The Senator had not sounded all that conciliatory, said the wary Carter...
...great resonant voice rumbled from the podium and through the arena, capturing the full attention of the thousands of Democrats below. The curly, graying head bobbed in acknowledgment to the cheers from his listeners. Ted Kennedy's roar, once strangely uncertain, now clearly had become a force to move a multitude's emotions. The youngest of the Kennedy brothers, for so long during this campaign at odds with himself, seemed to have found a kind of peace. He quoted some lines from Tennyson's Ulysses...
Strange doings aboard the U.S.S. Nimitz! The great carrier puts out to sea from Pearl Harbor on a routine exercise, only to encounter this really nasty bit of weather. The old salts have never seen such lightning before, or heard such a strange roar from the ocean. The disturbance does not even register on the radar screen...