Word: roar
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Everything lives and moves across the stone, not with the fluid grace of classical Greece, but to the harsher beat of the darker desert world. But to the artists who shaped the limestone, the lions clearly were heroic. They leap to the attack, roar with indignation; at times they seem to have more humanity than the stiffly muscled and ringleted men who torment them. Always, the lion dies, but his is also the final glory...
...angry young artists who came to maturity in the 1930s, few seemed angrier than Philip Evergood, his voice still booms, his eyes go wide, his his hands and arms slash the air. And some of his paintings still roar with indignation. But by last week when when Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art opened its first Evergood retrospective show, the famed anger had mellowed into something hauntingly gentle...
Whenever he managed to break through the tight security, though, Eisenhower made a roaring hit with the Argentine public. Riding with Frondizi at a fast clip down the stately Avenue St. Martin, he insisted that the automobiles slow down, and objected when the crowd thickened and his escorts, a mounted troop of grenadiers dressed in Napoleonic uniforms, moved their horses around his car for protection. Waving the guardsmen aside, Ike greeted the dense crowds with a grin, and got a roar of welcome in return-a remarkable salute from the usually reserved Argentine public. The subdued chant of "Peron! Peron...
...this time the sirens did not wail, the cannons did not roar, and few families bothered to deck their houses with flags. In contrast to the excitement in London the week before, only a small crowd gathered outside the imperial palace to shout "Banzai!"' Japan seemed to be waiting...
Then a mighty roar went up, and there came Tom Mboya on the shoulders of his excited supporters. Around his shoulders was a black skin cape. The sleepy eyes danced with pleasure, and a grin split the gleaming, satin-smooth black face...