Word: roaring
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...when Willkie reached Los Angeles, the city went crazy. Torn paper & ticker tape showered down, a steady, deep-toned roar followed his car for many miles, and at the City Hall the swirling crowd jammed around him so frenziedly that he never got within 50 feet of Acting Mayor Robert Burns and the dignitaries...
...three-quarters of an hour Franklin Roosevelt stood on the stage of Constitution Hall with arms outstretched and hands grasping the speaker's stand, his only gesture an occasional toss of his big, grey head. From the hushed hall every now & then broke a deep, spontaneous roar of approval...
...destroyers, steamed under the tall chalk cliffs of Dover, a series of four bright flashes, closely spaced, followed by heavy smoke puffs, were seen on the French Coast, 20-odd miles away. About 80 seconds later four geysers spouted in the Channel near the convoy, accompanied by the crashing roar of four big shells exploding. At last the Germans were trying out their threat to "command the Channel with coast artillery...
...plumes. Queen Victoria was in front, followed by big Remus, tallest trot ter (17.2 hands) on U. S. tracks and little Kuno, last year's two-year-old champion. As they rounded the first turn of the three-cornered track, all Goshen shook with a mighty roar. Spencer Scott, the favorite, began to move up on the outside...
...authentically American: he always seems to be threatening to clinch a literary judgment in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress. The literary situation which Critic DeVoto found in the East was calculated to exacerbate his deepest instincts, habits of thought and affection. With a loud roar of rage, the felicity of phrasing and invaluable candor of a common scold, he immediately started to set things to rights...