Word: roaring
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...week after the capture of Naples. Lang came very near being killed in the bombing explosion that wrecked the post office. "I had just seated myself next door when it happened," he cabled. "A sudden overwhelming roar, then shattered glass tinkling all around us. It was dark; huge masses of black smoke blotted the light from the room. A wild dissonant chorus of pain pierced up from the Via Cesare Battista. There were some 30 bodies and parts of bodies strewn in death's strange shapes over the street. And there were many others...
Fannie Hurst, literary heart-throbber, foresaw even further emancipation for women after the war but confessed: "I am beginning to doubt whethr we want it." She added: "Home fires are going to roar...
Tongue in cheek, the President asked his press conference: Had anything happened at home while he was away? The answer was a roar of laughter...
...Foreign News. The Marseilles Bridge does not open and shut. It is a platform suspended from a high trestle. (Probably it makes the "clanging roar" we mentioned when the platform hits the sides...
...Parris Island is as good a backdrop as any for Diamond's fabulous personality. In his new job he greets recruits with a wounded-bull roar, shoves them through an assembly line of showers, haircuts, lice inspection and clothing issues at the rate of 200 an hour. He bawls countless lectures at awed recruits (and quaking second lieutenants), lectures he has learned by heart in 26 years of professional soldiering...