Word: roaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years elevated trains kept Manhattan's Sixth Avenue in shadow and a perpetual uproar. Early wood-burning locomotives dumped cinders down the necks of people on the street below; later electric cars went overhead with a clattering roar like garbage cans rolling down endless flights of stairs. In the shadow of the "El" taxis wove wildly among pillars, and in the murky streets blocks of laundries, pastrami shops, employment agencies, dingy bars and doubtful bookshops grew like mushrooms...
...latest excursion into the world of fantasy. The rabbits tipped their heads, as men tip their hats, "removing them with their paws and putting them back again." A pink comet flashed by, missing the world by inches. The air was full of the tinkling of musical mud, the roar of barking trees, the flight of wingless birds. In fact, everything was just as usual...
...Presidential C-54 lurched through stormy weather, sat down at Kansas City behind a sister ship that carried reporters and secret servicemen. Up the ramp of the "Sacred Cow" ran daughter Mary Margaret; her "Hi, Daddy!" rang out above the low roar of the engines...
...Great Letdown." From the forces came a full-throated roar of anger. Protests began to deluge M.P.s and party organizers. Wrote a sergeant from Germany: "This demob news shook the boys more than anything." Embittered Tommies, watching boatloads of G.I.s heading home each week, took to advertising in their home papers for jobs. The Government was likened to Ethelred the Unready (see cut). Stocky, quick-firing Garry Allighan, Labor M.P. for the blitzed Gravesend dock area, staggered out from under 2,000 demobilization letters a day to cry: "You must solve this-or have revolution. It's serious...
...Japs departed, grey skies closed In again on the grey ships, and there was a steady drone in the sky. The drone became a deafening roar, and a mass of U.S. planes swept over the ships-400 B-29s and 1,500 fleet carrier planes-in a final salute. Then it was quiet again. The ceremony-and the war-were over...