Word: roaring
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...lions didn't roar when she walked...
...horror is in the aftermath. Churches go up in flames, men are set on fire in their castles, tiny firing squads claim victim after victim, a man is broken on a wheel, 21 corpses hang from a single tree. Callot's etchings are too small to roar with rage, but all the brutality is there, etched in acid fury...
...matter which way they drive, tourists will inevitably meet up with animals. Motoring out of Nairobi in a hired car recently, two U.S. schoolmarms spied a lion sprawled at the roadside, got out to cut off his claws for souvenirs. Just in time, the beast awoke, blasted an indignant roar at his company, and ambled off. The gibbering women were revived with brandy provided by a sympathetic passerby...
What a Ride. Strapped firmly on his couch, Shepard could hear the rocket's roar, could feel its wild vibration, its immense thrust as he was boosted into the air. Everything went exactly according to expectations. In the operations room at the Mercury control blockhouse, doctors crouched over telemetering equipment that recorded the astronaut's pulse, temperature, respiration. Range officers watched as moving lights on the electronic status board traced the rocket's path, predicted the capsule's point of impact. Another astronaut manned the communications console and began the running fire of reports...
...proctors are restless tonight, no less so than the undergraduates. The sound of heels in a flamenco beat penetrates the walls of my room in Pennypacker 42. Next door, the proctors negate the L. Trevor principle of Harvardian dignity. After the dull roar or the incipient party became audible, my next door neighbor kindly said, "Hope you can stand another hour of this." Two hours later, after the whole dorm has spent a great deal of time in semi-riot, the proctorian rumble continues, and I have given up hope of finishing my Friday math assignment and getting...