Word: roaring
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...driving the lion around in his car. its front paws on the front seat, hind legs on the back seat and head out the window. When blase Californians refused to look twice at what they thought was a stuffed lion, Griffiths nonchalantly poked the beast, elicited a pained roar and horrified attention from passersby...
...half revealed behind the slanted, dazzling shafts of brightness from the television lights. When Barkley came down the stairs at the end of the platform, stiffened his back, lifted his chin and advanced unsmilingly to the speaker's stand, the restless rumble of the crowd became a roar. The ovation went on for 20 minutes...
...some big cities, vast traffic jams never really got untangled from dawn to midnight; the bray of horns, the stink of exhaust fumes, and the crunch of crumpling metal eddied up from them as insistently as the vaporous roar of Niagara. Psychiatrists, peering into these lurching, honking, metallic herds, discovered all sorts of aberrations in the clutch-happy humans behind the steering wheels...
Carrying aloft the blazing Olympic torch, he circled the 400-meter track, with an easy, familiar stride. From the spectators came a delighted roar of applause for one of the most unforgettable of all Olympians: Finland's Paavo Nurmi, now 55, and in his Olympic days (1920-28) the greatest distance runner in the world. Stopping at the base of the giant urn, Nurmi stretched high to set it ablaze with fire relayed across Europe from Olympia. The 1952 Olympics had begun...
...picture of one of the delegates who had fainted, another delegate clouted him on the head and guards hauled Tretick off the floor. At one point, Temporary Chairman Hallanan called in sergeants-at-arms to clear the floor of newsmen entirely, but the order was reversed after an angry roar of protest...