Word: roaring
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...Plane for Refugees. In the midst of writing these words, I heard a sudden roar, looked overhead at a transport plane circling in low. I heard cries: "Hurray, Hurray" from American enlisted men as the plane circled and landed. "Don't that plane look good. Go kiss it." Someone sang God Bless America...
...Jones was still far from being put in a jar. Dispenser of billions of dollars, as smart at politics as at financing, he has always had Congress eating out of his hand. His removal would unloose a roar of thunder in his home State, Texas, and the South, which has received a goodly portion of Mr. Jones's well-distributed loans. But one man in the U.S. still looms larger: Mr. Roosevelt...
...noise rose early on April Fools' Eve, with the full moon. It grew from a rattle to a roar, insistent, oncoming. It was mortar fire, machine-gun fire, rifle fire, dive-bombing, naval bombardment, all the powder in the powder...
...could identify the targets, whether oiler, transport, freighter or warship. But they were Japanese, and that was all the destroyer's men needed to know. At short ranges, never over 500 yards, her torpedoes shot into the sides of ships that were out of sight before the roar of the explosions...
...Paris. From the roof of a five-story apartment building in nearby Auteuil, Commandant Fontaine saw a sight he had never thought to seethe night sky reddened by a score of great fires in the Renault plant. Scuttling back to Vichy the next day, he described the roar and crackle of flames, the screams of people trapped in the debris, and said that the ruins were still smoking when he left. The raiders sent some 200 planes in all, Commandant Fontaine estimated, and they dropped about 2,000 demolition bombs, plus innumerable incendiaries...