Word: roaring
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Spotters caught the enemy in focus. Archies opened up. The first roar had not died when a roar of British throats took its place. Down the sky like an aimless maple-seed pod fluttered a crippled Fiat. Two parachutes opened and floated down. They were seen to land on the sea, but the gear dragged the pilots down before a destroyer could gaff them...
...Cornell, Duke, Wisconsin, other U. S. colleges attach similar legends to campus statues which are said to move whenever a pure maid walks by. Under like conditions the lions in front of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue are said to roar, have, according to Author Sharp's appendix, "so far [been] observed only to yawn...
...faint roar of many voices broke in on his thoughts. His watch!--Christo et Ecclesiae -- 2:10 "Where did I put those pennants...
...turn to live with father has arrived at last. And Oscar Serlin's production of the play based upon Clarence Day's entertaining book removes any slight suffered by the Hub in taking third place. Life With Father has but a whisper of a plot, but it is a roar of entertainment from breakfast table to breakfast table...
With a shattering roar an explosion forward of the engine room threw the vessel violently on its beams, next minute a second torpedo crashed into the engine room. In an instant the whole ship was a hell of fire and water. Through the gaping holes in her sides, water poured into the ship, trapping scores of passengers, some of them wounded by the blast. In the darkness and storm it was almost impossible to launch lifeboats. She was listing farther every minute...