Word: roar
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...Maine cottage every summer with his blueblood wife and four children. But he also knows when to call a tomahto a tomayto, and he speaks with some of the oratorical grandeur of John L. Lewis; with the same effective trick of ranging from a whisper to a sudden roar. In a swift series of 500 campaign speeches, young Bob Bradford last week finished strong even in some stout Irish precincts, where to be a Yankee and a Harvard man is to be twice-damned...
...bill to give the vote to Canadian soldiers overseas had gone through the House of Commons with a roar of unanimous approval. Everyone was pleased. But concealed in the bill's legal verbiage was an ugly clause. It would enable any provincial legislature to bar, for racial reasons, Canadians everywhere in Canada from voting...
...what it was-a new weapon of terrible power. It was never something to be shrugged off with British humor and contempt for the bloody Nazis. It was a weapon which struck again & again & again, 18 hours at a stretch. Even its sound-effects were potent: a throaty roar, then a sudden silence when the jet motor stopped and the bomb dived; then the blast. It kept thousands of Londoners in deep shelters. It drove other thousands to the country. It kept thousands, at work aboveground, in a state of sustained apprehension which the Great Blitz never matched. As inaccurate...
...People's War. On London streets dignified Britons forgot their dignity. Sir Kenneth Clark, director of the National Gallery, was standing in a bus queue when he heard the roar, felt the silence...
...their homes, Britons pulled table like, steel-legged Morrison shelters into living rooms, broke off conversations to dive under them at every roar. In pubs and cafes, chatter stilled while diners and drinkers ducked under tables...