Word: roaringly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SECOND CAR. At least four eyewitnesses have described a slow-moving car driving ahead of the Mercedes in the right lane of the express road before it entered the tunnel at 12:25 a.m. on Aug. 31. Two off-duty chauffeurs standing near the tunnel entrance heard the roar of the motor as the Mercedes downshifted and accelerated. Directly in front of the speeding vehicle, they said, was a dark-colored sedan moving at normal speed. (The speed limit in the tunnel is 30 m.p.h.) They saw the Mercedes swerve into the left lane in an attempt to pass...
...left the Ritz, it proceeded normally, along with its entourage of paparazzi on motorbikes, until it reached a traffic light at the Place de la Concorde, a few blocks away. "Everybody stopped as usual at the red light," he said. "That's when the Mercedes took off with a roar before the light turned green, racing toward the embankment road...
...loved Hugh Sidey's article about the demise of his family's old newspaper printing press [AMERICAN SCENE, Aug. 4]. It brought back many fond memories. I was just 13 in 1944 when I got a job at the Alta Advocate in Dinuba, Calif. Every Thursday the rumble and roar of the news press came to life. She was a Country Campbell flatbed built in 1889. My usual chores were sweeping up and cleaning the job presses while Jake, the publisher, made up the front page. By 7 p.m. we lugged the forms to the bed of the press...
...starts with the sound of ancient bells. Not just any ancient bells, but the deep-throated, time-tinted clang and roar of a bianzhong, a fully intact set of 65 ceremonial bronze chimes entombed in China's Hubei province in 433 B.C. and dug up by amazed archaeologists 2,400 years later. Then the Hong Kong Philharmonic steals in with a simple yet radiant tune in D major--the key of Beethoven's Ode to Joy--and a children's choir begins to sing, accompanied by the soft throb of Chinese drums pounding out an African-flavored beat...
...beginning of Roar's pilot offers the hope that the show will maintain an ongoing subplot of a cursed romance between Conor and a rival's daughter. That promise vanishes quickly, unfortunately. It may have been just what Roar needed--a little touch of Melrose Place...