Word: roaring
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...whistle piping the President over the side as eight boys stood at attention; the four-starred flag of the Commander in Chief of the Army & Navy was broken out at the mainmast; a bugle sounded, bluejackets scurried about the decks, the big gasoline motors began to roar, and the Potomac moved down the historic river toward...
...unknown future by parents who feared never seeing them again, so on the other side of the Channel Hitler's preparations went forward. Sweating and laboring, the gun crews moved their cannon nearer the Channel; pungent-smelling aviation gas was stored for the bombers that would soon roar over the darkened cities; 500-lb., 1,000-lb., 2,000-lb. bombs were brought up to air fields, bombs destined to plunge through the roofs of houses, which always look vacant from...
...distance, a low rumbling burst into a roar as a climbing pillar of flame shot skywards from the oil tanks on the docks. Incredulously, St. Maloans listened as the sound of gunfire rolled up from the harbor, ducked wildly for shelter as British bombers and fighter planes slanted down to their targets...
...message from the President. Boo! "I will now ask the Senator to take the floor." Boo! The Senator reached the microphone, white and shaken. "Fellow Democrats," he be gan,"I left Washington at a quarter of two this morning. ..." Nothing was plain after that; through the surging roar of catcalls and the stamping of feet, whistles and bleacher wit, disjointed phrases echoed out of the loudspeakers: I thought democracy had returned to Louisiana...
...conference over desk trays. The President is not skillful with his hands: they fumble with papers, with spectacles; the wood matches he uses often break under his heavy fingers. When he appears casual, easy, charming, his hands are still. He likes to laugh, even these days -a delighted roar that shakes him up & down-and still in the hoarded minutes of his day finds time to write lusty wisecracks in memos to his aides; to think up little gags to spring on his press conferences...