Word: roaringly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, long before the anti-Communist inquiry set off the great roar, many a good citizen had wondered about the latitude given congressional committees, including such eminently successful bodies as the Senate War Investigating Committee headed by Harry Truman during World...
From the crowd jammed around Buenos Aires' temporary arch of triumph on the wide Plaza de Mayo came a jubilant roar. It was like an echo of another crowd, just two years ago, that roared through the capital, forced Juan Domingo Perón's return from exile and started him on his way to the presidency...
...will those whose sense of style has been numbed by those same bestsellers. When the Mountain Fell is the artfully simple story of what happened when a landslide wiped out a herders' settlement in the Swiss Alps 200 years ago. Far below in the village of Aire, the roar was heard in the middle of a clear June night. Next morning, the lovely, cattle-dotted valley of Derborence was choked with the 150,000,000 cubic feet of rock that had loomed over the region as the Devil's Tower. In Aire nearly every house had lost...
...great liberal and an exacting administrator. He had performed miracles of political acrobatics. But New Yorkers had grown to think of him not so much as a political force but as a manifestation of sound and movement-shrill, vehement, energetic and cacophonous, as oddly comforting as the roar of the subway and the bleat of taxi horns...
...last chance of the year: the rainy season was at hand on Utah's Bonneville salt flats. The cowling was bolted into place on top of him; a truck gave the car a push. At 20 m.p.h., the engine coughed and then settled into a steady roar. At 140 m.p.h., Cobb shifted into second gear, into high at 240 m.p.h. About halfway down the 14 mile course he entered the measured mile. Cobb, a London fur-broker, had spent over $30,000 to try to break his own 1939 land-speed record (369.7 m.p.h...