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...DiMaggio stepped from the plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, a full-throated roar rose from the waiting crowd. "Banzai DiMaggio," they shouted. Joe and 16 other players-the first U.S. all-star major league team to visit Japan since 1934-had come to make a good-will tour of Japan, in which they will play 15 games of beisu-boru against Japan's best teams...
Some 100,000 descamisados massed before the palace to pay tribute to "our lady of hope." There was a thunderous roar as she was carried in an armchair, a slight figure in a checked burgundy suit, to Perón's side on the balcony. Just before he spoke, the President decorated her with a special medal for relinquishing the vice-presidential nomination. Then, for the first time that anyone could remember, he clasped his wife in a public embrace. The descamisados howled with pleasure...
...Italian army officer and a Russian mother, Rossi did not decide on a singing career until 1943. Up to that time, he meant to be a diplomat. But after a spell in the Italian army he became a partisan liaison man with the Allies, and began to roar out folk songs at soldier parties. He won so much local fame that the mayor of Verona asked him to sing a concert. Since then, Rossi has studied opera with the devotion of a monk. By last year, his big bass had filled every major opera house in Italy and several...
...Yankees were elaborately unruffled. Reynolds deliberately went through the ritual of the pitcher-glaring at the man on second, tucking his chin down as if in thought. Suddenly, there was a swelling roar from the crowd. There on the base path Irvin was digging for the plate. In that paralyzed instant, the startled Reynolds looked up. Irvin was ten steps from home. Reynolds drew back his arm (eight steps) and threw hastily to Yogi Berra (six steps) and Irvin hurtled into his slide. Berra stretched for the high throw, and Irvin was across. With a roar of delight, the crowd...
Washington won a seat in Virginia's House of Burgesses, but he had little gift for shining. He was a poor speaker and slow in debate; his prose was clubfooted. But he was a solid man whose word was respected. When New England patriots began to roar about the British Stamp Act, he urged caution. He hoped for a compromise even after the fighting began -and he was man enough to admit his original doubts later, after he saw that the revolution would have to be fought...