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...White House. They have surrendered to the Executive Department without facts or figures. [But] we've come up here with what we think is a good bill for the security of the U.S." As Dick Richards returned to his seat, the House surged to its feet in a roar of cheers and applause...
...exorbitantly expensive in most U.S. cities. For a business whose methods have changed little since its cheap-labor heyday, the cost of moving from town to town has become prohibitive. On top of that, today's children, surfeited with TV tinsel, no longer quicken to the real-life roar of lions, the aerialist's heart-stopping plunge. "Suckers may still be born every minute," epitaphed a circusman in Manhattan last week, "but TV gets 'em first...
Several minutes before Junta's match ended, a roar went up from court four. At third doubles, Gravem and Connie Fischer had defeated John McKean and Arnold, 6-4, 6-3, to assure the Crimson of the EIL crown...
...raised his right hand high, and cried in an echo of the flowing Barkley style: "I'm glad to sit in the back row. I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty-"* Then, with the roar of applause and cheers from the 1,200 students ringing through the hall, Alben William Barkley, 78, slumped to the stage, dead of a heart attack...
...infantry division, he marched across 8,000 miles of Russian soil, was severely wounded five times, saw his division lose twelve times its original manpower. In The Cross of Iron, Heinrich does what a good war novelist should and few can. He makes the private inferno of his war roar all over again, but as if for the very first time...