Word: roaringly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fell over the crowded public galleries last Wednesday night as the House of Commons prepared to vote. The issue: an opposition motion expressing no confidence in the minority Liberal government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau because its proposed 1974 budget allegedly failed to deal effectively with Canada's roaring inflation. Minutes later, when House Speaker Lucien Lamoureux announced the tally-137 votes in favor of the motion to 123 against*- opposition M.P.s exploded in a roar of delight and littered the green-carpeted chamber with a blizzard of tossed papers. Next day Governor General Jules Leger dissolved Parliament...
From the long corridor of people came a roar that built into a crescendo. "We've got a winner," the man to the right yelled. The radio reports had been right, for striding down the asphalt, flanked by police motorcycles, was Neil Cusack of East Tennessee State, eating up the last few yards. Far above, the Prudential Center loomed in the suddenly grey sky as the crowd whistled and screamed its approval...
...Dwight Eisenhower sought out the best links in the nation for himself and his golfing cronies on occasions when he should have been at his desk handling national problems. John Kennedy's social evenings were a lot more successful than some of his dealings with Congress. People still roar with laughter recalling that Lyndon Johnson, when told by a Marine that he was headed toward the wrong Government helicopter, looked down and said, "Son, they are all my helicopters...
...Madison Square Garden, Wonder gave his first American concert since the accident. Sporting a mustache and his familiar dark glasses, he pointed toward heaven, then to his forehead and finally cut loose with a survivor's smile. From the balcony, loges and floor of the Garden came a roar-20,000 voices strong-of adulation, welcome and animal joy. He warmed up with a leisurely bit of improvisation called Approaching Contusion, then swung into some of his most famous hits: Superwoman, Superstition, Keep on Running. It was fine to hear a voice so long addicted to sweet soul...
...elderly Albuquerque couple, lounging in the backyard one cool New Mexico evening, heard a roar from above. Then a light appeared, focusing with terrifying intensity on the man and woman. A UFO? Hallucination? Not at all. The source was the Albuquerque police department's "spy in the sky" plane on a routine patrol. "It scared the world out of us," the man said later. "It reminded us of George Orwell's 1984." The low-flying craft operates by daylight too. A woman complained that she could no longer sunbathe on her roof because the plane kept circling overhead...