Word: roaringly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time when every lost second can mean failure as well as death, he can recognize nothing. In his despair, the face of this amateur actor submits to a tragic disintegration which Chaplin himself hardly ever surpassed. The peasant's face, his suddenly unfamiliar country and the roar of the rickety bomber, throughout this beautifully filmed scene, combine to make a heart-tearing embodiment of man's predicament and man's hope...
...search for a lost Marine Corps transport plane. But a fall on rock-fanged ice had finally sent him skiing painfully back to his snug cottage in a timber-bordered Government camp. With his torn ribs healing he would idle before a snapping log fire, listen to the faint roar of the Nisqually River, and watch his pretty wife, Martie, cooking a 19-pound turkey...
...treasurer of the state of Chihuahua, an acquaintance went to him and said: "Antonio, my friend, I want to import several carloads of alcohol from the U.S., and if I pay taxes on it it will be very expensive. . . ." Bermúdez usually low-pitched voice rose to a roar: "If I invite you to my house for dinner then you can call me Antonio and call me your friend. Here you address me properly as an official of the state. You will of course pay taxes like everybody else-adios...
...Mister Merdeka." At the end of each speech he punches out, with clenched fists, three thunderous cheers: "Merdeka [Freedom]! Merdeka! Merdeka!" His followers roar the word, plaster it on billboards, use it as the Nazis used Heil Hitler in telephone greetings. Affectionately, they call their leader "Mister Merdeka...
...Lion's Roar. Then it happened. Prince, the tiger, got nervous, began whipping his tail. It flicked against Tyrone and the big lion turned, rose, roared and lashed out with his paw. The tiger snarled, lashed back, lost his balance and fell. Tyrone was on him like a load of coal. The second tiger jumped Tyrone. Then every lion in the cage came down. In 15 seconds the air was trembling with the kind of noise you hear when a bomber's engines are run up full. Big cats crouched, sprang, rolled, roared all over the ground...