Word: roars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Muffled Roar. Two days of dogged Seabury questioning wore off Jimmy's gloss. Little by little his theatrics turned hollow, his cockiness wilted. Samuel Seabury sent his report to New York's Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, who called Democrat Walker on the carpet for personal questioning. But before Roosevelt had a chance to remove Walker from office, the mayor resigned and fled to Europe. Three years later he returned, played desperately at being a man about town, became a familiar and still-jaunty figure in nightclubs, theaters and bars before his death...
Aloof, and thin-lipped, Judge Samuel Seabury moved out of the news and was scarcely heard from again. Last week, at 85, the man who had helped muffle the roar of the '20s died in a Long Island nursing home...
...Soon his white convertible neared the sweating demonstrators, whose faces twisted with hatred as they cried, "Nixon is a viper!" Nixon turned to an aide, said: "I think we ought to take it on," got out of the car. He briskly shook some outstretched hands, shouted over the angry roar: "I came to talk with you! Have your leader come out and talk...
...orders one of scores of Emergency War Plans-E.W.P.s-designed to meet every calculated contingency to be put into immediate operation. SAC flashes its orders-"PLAN BLANK"-to any or all of some 70 SAC bases worldwide. At the bases the alert crews scramble and head off with a roar toward target-via a Fail Safe point that varies with every mission...
...leathery Boer farmers, their bosomy wives, and teen-age Nationalist Youth Bunders waving the flag of the old British-hating Transvaal Republic. From the platform a local politico shouted out an introduction in Afrikaans: "Our candidate is the lion of the North. Tonight you are going to hear him roar...