Word: roaring
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There was good reason for the bull-throated roar. Many companies were passing out bigger dividends, and earnings in general had held steady. But more important, the eight-year-long boom, after being prematurely buried time & again, was surging up bigger than ever in many segments of the economy...
...falling! I'm going down!" The left wing ripped away and spun off into the darkness. Helplessly the crippled plane tumbled toward the soft yellow lights of the West Minnehaha Parkway residential section, plummeted into Frank Doughty's house with a roar and "a flash like a dozen suns," as a neighbor described it. Flames burst from the upstairs windows, and tiny pieces of hot metal rained over the neighborhood...
...British hopes pan out, the low-pitched roar of auto traffic may turn to a thin, high whine. Last week at Silverstone race track, Warwickshire, the Rover Co. of Birmingham showed off a gas-turbine sport coupé. Its unofficial name: the Whizzard...
...Impossible. Up went the judges' cardboard squares, and up went a roar of approval from the crowd: Button's severest critic gave him 5.7; one judge hoisted skating's highest accolade-the "impossible" 6. Later, when all the scores of the two-day competition had been tabulated, Olympic Champion Dick Button had run away from the opposition like Citation in his prime. Button's score: 1,419.47 points out of a possible 1,537.2. Hungary's Ede Kiraly,* European champion, won second honors with...
...know the words to this For He's a Jolly Good Fellow?" Replied another: "I don't even know the melody." Nevertheless, when the curtain went down on Tosca, then up again on a gala pageant of recent Met history, every singer present seemed to roar it out like a native, and from the heart. There was good reason for their fervor: the pageant was the Met's farewell to pink-cheeked, white-haired General Manager Edward Johnson, who will retire when Manager-Designate Rudolf Bing takes over...