Word: roaring
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...dropped back and fired the ball a long pass to the 23. Three men--two Harvard defenders and Cornell end John Morris went up for the ball, and when they came dowm Sam Fyock and Morris were still wrestling for the ball. The Cornell stands let out a deafening roar when the officials after separating the two men awarded the ball to the offensive team on the 23. The clock showed two and a half minutes and Harvard showed signs of fatigue...
...There are some," said the President, his voice rising above the roar of the spillway, "who contend that the development and distribution of hydroelectric power is exclusively the responsibility of Federal Government . . . Only thus, these zealots would have us believe, can we poor citizens be protected against exploitation by what they call the 'predatory' exponents of capitalism-that is, free enterprise . . . These believers in centralization fail to warn us that monopoly is always potentially dangerous to freedom, even when monopoly is exercised by government. Curiously enough, they proclaim their fear of a private power monopoly in a county...
...Adler played a new work, written for harmonica and orchestra, at one of London's Promenade Concerts (see above). It was Harmonica Concerto, Op. 46, by British Composer Malcolm Arnold. Its three movements were by turns rollicking, somber and flamboyant, and its playful use of percussion brought a roar of approval from the crowd. After that, Adler repeated another piece written for him, Vaughan Williams' Romance (first performed in 1951), the only work that London "prom" goers ever insisted on hearing twice...
...cathedral had been blasted out of the solid granite. Water from glacial lakes poured down through a ten-mile tunnel to turn the turbines and set in motion the vast Kitimat project built by the Aluminum Co. of Canada. "Does it work?" shouted the duke above the machines' roar. Said a proud Alcan engineer: "You bet it does...
...they watched, the fire became a disaster. Without warning, another warehouse with 56,000 barrels blew up with a roar that could be heard 75 miles away, and came-crashing down in blazing piles 50 feet deep. By the time the fire was finally under control, American had lost close to 100,000 barrels of whisky, sustained damages of more than $7,000,000. Burrowing into the wreckage, firemen found the bodies of six American workers to add to the 30-odd injured...