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...elite's cool hilltop villas overlooking Port-au-Prince, the roar was all too audible. It was le rouleau compresseur -the "steamroller" as Fignolé's Mouvement Ouvrier Paysan was popularly called -trying to intimidate the Assembly into voting for its candidate...
...meteorites fall on the earth's surface each day, do no damage. But, points out Coles, the famed 1908 meteorite that fell in northern Siberia showed what a meteor could do. It knocked forests flat for 30 miles, blew a man off his doorstep 50 miles away. Its roar was heard more than 400 miles...
...combine's engine and the morning's vast silence was filled with chugging and the swish of churning slats. Frank stood atop the combine, guiding the pitch and height of its 16-foot reel as it chewed at the stalks. Now there were other sounds: the roar of Jack Anderson's tractor as he swung the smaller combine in behind his father's, and the low, steady purr of kernels pouring into the combines' bins...
Overhead was the roar of planes. But all eyes, mostly red from lack of sleep, were focused on a glistening B-29 Super-fort, Dave's Dream,* which stood apart at the south side of the strip...
Order & Death. But the Allies are still hundreds of miles away, south of Rome. The German Army arrives instead; Farkas hears its motorcycles and tanks roar into the village. "These wretched peasants," sighs the German colonel; "I am here to restore order." In spite of himself, Farkas is caught up in the troubles of the Italian Communist, and is swept to death in the "restoring" of order...