Word: roaringly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yards from the National Palace, fills with drunken gunmen and pulsating music with a voodoo beat. Through the hours of darkness cars rumble up to the Normandie Restaurant and the political offices next door. Scores of "attaches," the heavily armed civilian auxiliaries to the police, receive their orders and roar away on the violent and bloody missions that keep the Haitian military regime in power...
...began with handshakes for the first Marines to hit the beaches last December turn into a deadly battle against hate-filled Somalis? What interests did the U.S. have in Somalia that could conceivably justify the sufferings of men like Rodriguez and Durant? By midweek the questions coalesced into a roar: Get out. All the way. And never mind what kind of precedent a pullout set for future U.N. peacekeeping operations in the savage local conflicts that have succeeded the cold...
Robert Altman's Short Cuts -- one of the season's most widely anticipated films -- opens with shots of helicopters, photographed so they look like giant bugs as they roar across the night skies, doing battle with a little bug, the Medfly, terror of the California fruit industry. This periodic chemical warfare, in which insecticides are noisily laid down across entire neighborhoods, is one of the minor, faintly comic annoyances of Los Angeles life. All that technology; such a humble and primitive...
...show, "Standing On The Moon." Starting off slow and mellow, it incrementally blossomed into a exhibition of how strong and healthy Jerry is. As Garcia's vocal coda of "with you" rose and rose in volume, the exhausted capacity crowd of 15,700 came to its feet with a roar, causing Garcia to become even more exuberant and finish the normal set of the last show of the weekend with the most animated vocal solo this writer has ever seen...
...explosion killed four people and wounded at least 15, including al-Alfi, whose arm was broken. From the window of a second-floor office John Aydelott, a member of the university faculty, heard the roar of the bomb, looked down and saw a woman lying in the street. "Her shoulder had been blown away," he recounted, "and her legs were slashed. A man nearby was nothing but a torso...