Word: roaringly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign News. The Marseilles Bridge does not open and shut. It is a platform suspended from a high trestle. (Probably it makes the "clanging roar" we mentioned when the platform hits the sides...
There was oil around Polecat Bench all right: the Wyoming-Montana Elk Basin Field, that was first opened up by Ohio Oil in 1915, has produced some oil and gas every year since. Oldtimers say the gassers used to "roar so damn much you couldn't talk to your wife in bed without yelling." But Nettie never struck enough to keep body & soul together: in 1935, hounded by creditors, she gave up and disappeared from Elk Basin.* No one knows what became of her, but if she could see her homestead today she would feel like shooting herself with...
Winged Victory (by Moss Hart; produced by the U.S. Army Air Forces) takes off with a roar, will keep flying till God knows when. A salute to the Air Forces, it is simple, warmhearted, big-and served up with a rousing Army Band. As a play, it never once batters the mind. But as a show it often whops the emotions, as a spectacle often tingles the blood...
...view, but now and then they thinned out to show us the red, seething mass of lava whose fierce heat came at us in gusts. The steepness of the sides, yellowed with sulfur, surprised me. They sheered off below us like a cliff. And every 30 seconds came that roar and explosion as the angry mass shot its lava into...
Above the roar of our motors we did not hear the approach of that first shell. But I saw the flame leap out of the boat next to me and the crash shook our boat. The boat jerked once or twice and then went on. Abruptly I sat down in the bottom, not as a precaution but because I was afraid. I heard a soldier say: "I saw a shell close like that in training once," and I was more afraid...