Word: roaringly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Those Dirty Rats." It went off with a bright flash and a stunning roar just as Reuther stood up, with a dish in his hand, to get some fruit salad from the refrigerator. Glass tinkled, the dish flew into a thousand pieces. Reuther spun, staggered and fell to the floor like a man who had been clubbed. For a second there was no more sound. Mrs. Reuther stood transfixed. Reuther lay on his back, industriously trying to move his bloody right arm and deciding, with the casualness of shock, that it had been blown...
...With a roar, a wave of provincial protest against higher freight rates (TIME, April 12) broke last week against the federal government. For a moment the government staggered, then the skillful footwork of Mackenzie King got things right again. Because the case for higher rates, based on the railways' higher costs, was solid, the government stood pat; it ordered the new schedule to take effect immediately. Then it offered a concession...
...little farming town of Fosterburg (pop. 250), Ill., had only half an hour's warning. Just after 6 o'clock in the morning, sunlight turned a sickly yellow and a warm wind blew. Then darkness fell] rain poured down in torrents, and a roar "like ten express trains" filled the sky. A Mrs. May Dingerson opened her,back door to investigate the awful noise. The door flew away. Then her front door flew open and all the windows burst. She felt as if her ears were full of water. Then everything went black. She woke, bleeding...
...slung over his shoulder paced slowly to and fro, holding his rodlike detector close to the ground and listening to the sounds in his earphones: rhythmic clicks, five to 50 a minute, depending on the minerals under foot. As he walked, the clicking sped up, whirred into a roar. The man stopped, noted down the location. He had detected a deposit of the world's most coveted mineral: uranium ore, chief source of atomic energy...
...Keith's three cameras. The television eye followed the music smoothly as it proceeded from section to section of the orchestra. It caught some remarkably candid glimpses of the maestro that concertgoers never see: Toscanini's glittering eyes, flashing eloquent messages to his musicians; his triumphant roar in the midst of a Wagnerian crescendo; the beads of sweat, glistening on his brow...