Word: roaringly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interest of athletic history, we could have one end of the rink for awhile. He agreed LoPresti gave me a brief, comprehensive lesson in goaltending, and I was set to go. But so was Cavanagh and he beat me easily on the first shot. I heard a roar from the stands, and looked around anxiously. I half-expected to see the Master rushing out on the ice and start shooting those pucks. But I settled down. When Joey came in on me the second time. I managed to smother the puck on the right side...
...automakers probably will have to hold down the power of their high-performance cars as one result of new federal pollution requirements. If so, the "muscle" cars like the Mustang Mach 1 and the Buick Grand Sport 455 will no longer have the kick that enables youngsters to roar away from the stop lights, tires smoking and exhaust pipes blasting. Big engines on luxury cars probably will be somewhat less powerful. The current high-powered cars are likely to have lower-compression engines designed to burn the unleaded gasoline of the future...
...Augie March -toward resolution. It was one thing to leave young Augie, grinning and scratching his head at the end of the novel. But Henderson, the Yankee millionaire who charges off to Africa in a frenzy of exasperation and despair, is 55 years old. He has asked, in a roar, Bellow's central question-how can a good man, no weakling, live in the modern world?-and he must have some answer if the novel is to be more than a hideously bad joke. The roaring is that of personality, and a line of Sammler's applies: "Perhaps...
...night in Tijuana was a lot dingier than we had expected, even though we had been there before. It is really a grim city. American cars without mufflers from the early 50's roar in zig-zag patterns down the gray, blotched sidewalks. Pre-teen hookers and wiry heroin-pushers alternate street corners. A lack of curiosity and daring kept us moving past them towards tourist shops...
...Will Agnew talk, roar or do a lot of listening?" wondered a columnist in the Philippines Herald. As it turned out, the Vice President adopted a painstakingly correct manner as he arrived in Manila last week on the first stop of his 25-day, 39,000-mile tour of eleven Asian and Pacific countries. "It's all very interesting," he said blandly. "I am not in a position to make pronouncements on this part of the world." When a group of youthful protesters lobbed a firecracker at his limousine, he refused to become rattled, even after some newspapers escalated...