Word: roars
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...oratory. "I discovered that night that an audience had a feel to it," he said of this first speech, "[and] that audience and I were together. When I came to actually presenting the motion ... there was no need for parliamentary procedure. They came to their feet with a roar ... It was heady wine...
...Harvard basketball team ran off the court that memorable Valentine’s Day with the roar of the crowd still ringing in their ears, I’m confident that they could at least sense this. That they had pulled...
...First, because of the military juntas who came to power in a bloody coup in 1962, and have been running the country with a truncheon ever since. Second, because of us. There has been no real roar against these human rights abusers, just the odd bark. Yet even single-party democracies check their mail. They're not just muscle; they're vain. Even juntas measure just how many boos and hisses they can get away with. Suu Kyi's peaceful bloody-mindedness is driven by courage, but her captors' bloody bloody-mindedness is driven by fear--fear of losing...
...would struggle to carve out a path so al-Sadr could reach a platform beneath the arches. Once there, his speech was usually brief, but the point of his appearance was clear: to show his movement's strength and plant the seeds for Islamic revolution. "Muqtada!" the crowd would roar. "We will sacrifice our blood...
...line about how "it's undignified to sleep alone" and reaches its climax--yeah, yeah--with a grand moment when the backup singers go "bip-bip-a-bip-a-dee-dip," the horns wail away and Prince slides down the begging scale from falsetto to a great big rumbling roar. It's the best James Brown song in years...