Word: roare
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...bright sunny Sunday morning, June 28, 1914, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, accompanied by his morganatic wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, drove down the streets of Sarajevo. Soon a bomb came hurtling through the air, crashing on the roadway behind the royal automobile, exploding with a deafening roar...
...East heard us last year, and we hope that Saturday they will hear us ROAR. The Purdue Exponent...
...flame of revolution is licking at the feet of President Calles of Mexico. Chihuahua, Coahuila, San Luis Potosi and bandit-ridden Durango are the latest states to be ignited, and the roar from the Mausers of firing squads is heard in the land. Eighteen members of the legislature of Morelos on Wednesday were taken from the chambers of their courtmartial to look briefly into the muzzles of rifles. General Alfredo Rueda Quijano, cavalry commander who sought to lead his troops in rebellion against Calles, waved farewell to three New York reporters in the courtyard of the San Lazaro Prison...
...dialectic of laughter, from boor to baronet, is thus: shout, guffaw, laugh, chuckle, smile. Inferior forms of laughter would seem to be the titter, the giggle, the cackle, the roar, the snigger...
Outside on the flying field a woman was kneeling. Over her the Most Rev. Francis Mostyn, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff, was praying, asking a blessing. On the ship he sprinkled holy water. Soon rose the motor roar which drowns goodbys on flying fields. The St. Raphael moved, gained speed, just averted disaster at the takeoff, and disappeared toward the Atlantic...