Word: roaring
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...Fielding. As a biographer, Master Dudden is as dull and honest as an old pewter pot; but he brims nevertheless with the sloshing ale of Fielding's vitality, and time & again the rollicking old genius seems to seize the pot in his pudgy fist, slam the table, and roar out his irrepressible toast to life, and again life...
...milk bottles clinked in the streets of London, Derek Bentley went to the gallows. Within minutes the prison gates opened with a clang, and a warder emerged with the traditional black-framed notice board: "The judgment of death was this day executed ..." The crowd surged forward with an angry roar; someone smashed the notice board. After half an hour's scuffling, the police-using only their fists-were able to disperse the demonstrators...
...well drilling platform, 14 miles off the Louisiana bayou shore, there was a sudden roar. Into the air shot great hissing sheets of flame. What oilmen fear worst-a well "blowout" and fire-had set aflame two of Pure Oil Co.'s gas wells...
...light blue Plymouth convertible, top down, rolled into the square and was greeted by a spine-tingling roar. Major General Mohammed Naguib, dressed in simple army tunic, snapped an answering salute. Cannons boomed, then over the loudspeakers came Naguib's voice: "In the name of the people, in the name of its pains and sorrows, in the name of its rights to a free and honest life, I proclaim the birth of an organization which will cement our unity." With that, 22 old political parties died and Egypt became, in effect, a single-party dictatorship guided by Naguib...
...left and right. The raiders surprised and killed three tunnel guards, then waited while the enemy packed the 8-by-5-ft. passage with troops. ROK engineers planted 200 Ibs. of TNT at the tunnel's mouth; five minutes later, the explosive went up with a shattering roar. Forty-four Reds perished; the tunnel was ruined...