Word: roar
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...feet pounded against asphalt, not astroturf, and the roar was not from the throats of the adoring thousands who used to watch him carry a football, shoot a basketball, and hit a baseball, but from the barrel of a gun, a .357 Magnum in the hands of an off-duty Sky Marshall...
...slip away. His volume would accelerate as he talked; fists would clench, adrenalin flowed fast. The sixty would become one, like an awesome animal flanking Walker in the center. At the climax came the question in a scream, "Are you ready?", and the animal's energy roar in response. This roar was what the fans waited for, the cue to rise and cheer for the victory to come. And for the players, it meant release from Walker's spell. It was this grip on the team's emotions more than anything else, more than even his tackling or scoring that...
Restraint is beyond him. The volume of his voice is a full roar; the volume of his drinking-on which he has believed "my science and art depended" -has borne him repeatedly to the edge of doom. As a last hope, he finds himself in Ward W of a midwestern hospital's treatment center, vowing to "get out of the whisky business altogether...
After them marched two long files of priests, more than 600 in all, clad in white robes and clerical stoles. The applause swelled to a roar. At the end of the procession walked eight Roman Catholic bishops and a cardinal of the church, resplendent in red chasubles...
...blinding strobe lights flashed Alice strutted around the stage like Tiny Tim impersonating the Marquis de Sade. He stabbed a life-sized doll that drew a loud roar of approval. Then Alice allowed his pet boa constrictor to slither down his body and protrude its head between his legs. More roars...