Word: roaring
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...write this dispatch 21 bombers are raining heavy bombs on the oil and alcohol refineries. The table under my hand is shaking like something alive. In this infernal din set up by screaming sirens, barking anti-aircraft guns and the roar of bursting bombs I can't take my mind off the shivering of the wall of this ancient hotel. If it holds together until I can get this off, then I will believe in miracles...
...after day, the notes came like hope rising from an inferno. For the world also knew what other sounds filled Warsaw-the bellow of bombing planes in power dives, the scream of fighting planes on the attack, the sharp whanging of anti-aircraft guns, the mighty thump, boom and roar of half-ton bombs plowing up the city's remaining defenses. To the North, the continuous thunder of artillery made a background for the nearer hammering of defense guns on the East, hurling shells over the rooftops toward the German positions in the western suburbs...
...white paper. He said that Britain's defenses were stronger than in 1914. His voice broke slightly when he read Britain's ultimatum. It grew angry when he said that if Poland remained undefended every country in Europe would fall by the Nazis' "sickening technique." There was a roar from the House when he pounded the table and cried: "The German Chancellor has not hesitated to plunge the world into misery to serve his senseless ambitions." There was a louder roar when he said, "We have no quarrel with the German people except that they allowed themselves to be ruled...
When you hear the lions roar...
...dealing between nations, diplomatic usages, conventions, complacency, the Third International, the advocates of appeasement, the believers in Hitler as a bulwark against Communism, the believers in Communism as a bulwark against Hitler, newspapermen, diplomats, intelligence officers, liberals, a skyful of hopefuls lit by the lurid glare of reality. The roar was terrific. Gleefully in Berlin Nazis gazed, spellbound and wondering, at the Führer's mighty handiwork...