Word: roaring
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Dazzling white lines shining at five-yard intervals ran across the field. The linesmen and umpires with their striped shirts stood on the margin of the playing field. Another roar of jubilation broke out as the Giants appeared. In only a few seconds, the hour-long battle would start. Four 15-minute periods of desperate struggle lay immediately before...
...whistle sounded; with a wild roar, both teams crashed together. Immediately handing off the egg-shaped ball, the Red Socks' Pat Brown had rammed his head into the wall of humans before him, to make room for his ball carrier. An enraged mass of humanity lay bellowing and screaming on the ground. Tom Bell ran with the ball towards an outside flank but was detected and before he knew what was happening, a Giant hurled him to the ground...
...again. The whistle--Pat Brown again handed the ball to a back, and was ramming his head and shoulders against the human wall, tearing at it with his hands, that he might run through the line; but he was struck a blow on the shins which made him roar out. Pat stumbled, fell, and before he could recover and rise, a Giant jumped with both feet on his chest...
...their opponents, the linemen of the Giants played the ball by throwing a long pass. Bobby Locke, one of their fastest people, ran onwards at full speed--5, 10, 20 yards (each a little smaller than a meter--author's note) and reached the goal-line. An ear-deafening roar filled the stadium as Bobby Locke touched the ball down behind the goal-line. It was six points...
...horses shot out of the starting gate for the 1¼-mile race. The crowd let out a roar as Arcaro whipped Nashua hard: within seconds the big bay horse spurted ahead, close to the rail. As Nashua shot forward, Swaps first veered to the outside, then tried to close. The crowd waited confidently for Swaps to make his move. Twice, coming into the backstretch and approaching the far turn, Jockey Shoemaker tried to move up on the outside; each time Arcaro whacked his mount and pulled away, holding the inside track. Coming down the long (1,531 ft.) homestretch...