Word: roaringly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the whole investigation seemed about to collapse in a roar of political ill temper. Chairman Alben W. Barkley, also out of patience with the Republican members, announced that he might quit too. So did Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter. George, who has seldom opened his mouth during the hearings...
...audience was not disappointed in the show. Pat Hurley came out with a roar, both fists swinging. His white mustache bristled, his black-ribboned pince-nez wobbled on his nose. He pounded away on his main theme: that Career Diplomats George Atcheson Jr. and John S. Service (formerly in China posts, now political advisers to General MacArthur in Tokyo) had worked against him and the avowed U.S. policy of upholding Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government. Most specific of his accusations...
...blurs with rage as Powell's fists beat & beat at the villain's face; the screen goes black while the hero fumbles about in a dark room ; two characters hold an important conversation near a subway track so that nearly every sentence is suspensefully interrupted by the roar of a passing train...
...Pacific commander, and the last CINCUS, was Admiral Husband E. Kimmel-who was to hear the roar of Japanese bombs exploding amid the anchored fleet...
...Fence Him In. The biggest news of the conference was the United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis, for whom life seemed to be beginning all over again at 65. The old lion stalked into the conference with a roar. Soon he had the A.F. of L.'s President Bill Green, once a mortal enemy, agreeing with everything he said. He had the C.I.O.'s President Phil Murray, once a bosom friend, sputtering with rage. For a while he had industry's delegates so charmed that a wisecracker observed: "John L. could be elected president...