Word: roar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Come, the big, restless evening-session crowds came to their feet on the floor and in the galleries. Politicos on the platform turned, beaming and clapping. And there was former President Herbert Hoover, walking with an old man's slow and careful step. About him burst a deafening roar of applause. It went...
...floodlighted group around the speakers' platform, an aisle opened and the crowd saw Presidential Nominee Dwight Eisenhower, square-shouldered, striding briskly. The scattered cheering of the crowd rose to a roar, and through it sounded the bouncing blasts of the field-artillery march-The Caisson Song. Eisenhower, trim in a blue suit, was at the microphone waving and smiling, with Mamie Eisenhower at his side. The music changed to Dixie, Mamie threw a kiss to the crowd, and the crowd began to chant "We want Ike." Chairman Martin waited for a few minutes, then stepped to the microphone...
Shortly after 5 the next morning, her deep-voiced siren burst into a jubilant roar; she was off Bishop Rock, 2,982 miles from Ambrose Lightship, after a crossing of only 3 days 10 hr. 40 min. She had averaged 35.59 knots, had knocked 10 hr. 2 min. off the old mark. The Queen Mary's skipper, outward bound, sent her a sportsmanlike message: "Godspeed. Welcome to the Atlantic. Am sacking my chief engineer." Said the new ship's beaming skipper, Commodore Harry Manning: "I've still got more speed up my sleeve- we were just cruising...
...stepped wearily into his Cadillac and began the ride to lonely isolation in the white stone Basman Palace, on a hilltop overlooking his capital. Then came the surprise. As his speeding car kicked up swirling dust, thousands of his subjects-disregarding instructions-lined the road from the airport to roar a feverish welcome. Men waved banners: "Welcome Back, Great Hashemite King" and "Come Back to Your Kingdom." From the rooftops, veiled women chanted a wailing Arabic song...
Last week Genoa's Piaggio & Co., makers of Italy's first scooter, the Vespa (wasp), invaded the U.S. market with a roar. Sears, Roebuck & Co., which had ordered 1,000 Vespas as an experiment, sent a rush order for 5,000 more by September, and Piaggio prepared to supply Sears with up to 2,000 a month thereafter. Price...