Word: roaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Town "walked around the car as he would a horse, feeling its slick sides and the gleaming brass of the headlights." The salesman "stomped the cutout open, and they sat listening to the throaty roar of sound. 'How does she sound?' said the salesman. 'Hit sounds right powerful,' said Old Man Town...
...troops were U.S. bombs. The men riding shoreward in squat assault boats, leaping to the beaches, mounting their guns and slowly closing their hold on the islands were U.S. Marines. This time it was the Japs who peered slit-eyed from the slit trenches, who listened for the roar of attacking planes, who wondered when the hard, murderous strangers would next spring from the dunes and lunge forward behind grenades, machine guns and bayonets. This time it was the Japs who cried for reinforcements, and moaned that the tide of men rising from the sea never seemed...
...engines roar louder. Behind us our peashooters are attacked by Zeroes and new I-97s I see six go at Sawyer. He makes a head-on run at the leader, pours in a couple of bursts. The I-97, camouflaged with bright green paint, falls away in smoke. Five others do a quick flip to get on Charlie's tail, but he dives and pulls rapidly away and then comes up again on the corner of our tails...
...Stalingrad nights are very alarming. Simultaneously along a 30-kilometer shore air-raid hooters sound. Then the searchlights begin rotating, and with a loud chorus the roar of anti-aircraft guns starts. After 60 or 90 minutes the all-clear is sounded. The Fascist airplanes can not break through the circle of fire thrown up. Stalingrad lives and works...
...Listen to mah motor roar. Gr-r-row-owow! Now heah go another bomb. Whoo-oo-ee-ee-ee BOOM! Go ahead...