Word: roars
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...she’s a volunteer here with a humanitarian NGO as well-has been here a few weeks longer, so she is the one squinting into the dark looking for the right set of headlights. Suddenly, something on one of the side roads emits a flash and a roar-I look up to see not the bus but someone in a reflector-taped crossing-guard vest waving wildly at us, shouting in our direction. “I think someone’s calling you, Elisa,” I say. I’ve been in town...
...shuttle takeoff is never a smooth ascent; heavy buffeting and shaking rattle the craft, and the crew is deafened by a clanking, metallic roar. Because of turbulence caused by sudden wind shifts, Challenger's crew had an especially rocky launch right from lift-off. Just 72 seconds into the flight--a second and a half before the explosion--the orbiter yawed suddenly to the right. As the righthand rocket booster broke loose, spewing superhot gases from a faulty joint, the shuttle's engines tried to compensate for the loss of pressure, and the crew must have felt swift side...
...bleachers. He didn’t see his puck sail past Yale goaltender Josh Gartner, nor did he see it buried in the left side of the net. All he saw was the sudden movement of hordes of fans jumping to their feet, and all he heard was the roar of their shouts...
...bone) and peaks with a harmonica solo. It's nothing new, which is to say, it's very good. Martha Wainwright Bloody Mother f******* A****** The dry, ecstatic voice is a legacy of papa Loudon and mama Kate McGarrigle, but the talent for profanity is all her own. This roar of a song is further proof that a girl and a guitar can be just as menacing as a guy and a gun. Mei-Lwun Sweet Home Country Grammar Mash-ups - the marriage of a vocal from one song with the music bed from another - no longer sound so revolutionary...
...movies had been just a mental transom the public was half-tired of peeking through. The next day the movies were a gap in the mind's defenses through which a roaring lion leaped and landed in the delighted moviegoer's lap. Spears and guns threatened his head, spiders walked on his face, beautiful girls reached alluringly from the screen. Then, just when a man's guard was up, came a roar of sound from the balcony, and, caught from behind and before, he was yanked into the screen and taken for a thrilling ride on a roller coaster...