Word: roaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plenty of headaches over the slippery Coughlin discourses. Reputedly Father Coughlin several Sundays ago said something to which the censors had objected. Last Sunday's hocus-pocus suggested that the radio priest, expecting continued censor trouble, was building up a big issue to make the rabble roar again...
Defendant Browder's lawyer was famed, white-haired George Gordon Battle. To call Earl Browder's evasion criminal fraud, roared Mr. Battle, was "flimsy, uncertain, vague, clumsy, meaningless interpretation of words." To this roar, Attorney Battle added no defense testimony whatsoever, did not even offer a defense summation. Defendant Browder instead chose to plead his own case, ably belabored the technical charge on which he was spitted. Said he in conclusion...
...fear greatly that the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar ever more loudly, ever more widely. It will spread to the South, it will spread to the North. There is no chance of a speedy end except through united action, and if at any time Britain and France, wearying of the struggle, were to make a shameful peace, nothing would remain for the smaller States of Europe with their shipping and their possessions, nothing will remain but to be divided between the opposite, though similar, barbarisms of Nazidom and Bolshevism...
...Finnish anti-aircraft battery pot one of the visiting bombers. Cabled New York Times Correspondent Harold Denny: "We.saw a flash of fire in the sky, blotted out immediately by a mushrooming blob of black smoke, and then scraps of debris began falling. A moment later we heard a roar...
...rope which was held taut across my chest. The davits were within a few feet. Beneath me was a tangled mass of ropes, oars, iron and foaming water. I saw the red-faced man disappear into this turmoil, and then I was in it myself. There was a roar of rushing water, which almost but not quite obliterated the noise of screaming...