Word: roared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With shock wave, fiery blast and departing roar, the U.S. last week sent three missiles streaming into the Atlantic skies from Florida, and marked the most important week of U.S. missile firing to date. From the hot launching pads at Cape Canaveral Test Center shot the Air Force's intermediate-range Thor, the Army's counterpart Jupiter and-successfully for the first time-the Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile Atlas...
...incident followed an earlier stunt in which the fools staged a mock duel in the Radcliffe quad. The duelists, a judge, a doctor, and six seconds drove up in a black Cadillac limousine. The duelists proceeded to pace off and fire, the resulting roar awakening the girls...
...prayer.) Down premarked roadways they headed for their planes, where ground crews were already at work. Methodically they went down their take-off check lists (the long preflight checks had been done hours before, were done anew daily) and got ready to take off with a whine and a roar. Opening padlocked metal containers and black satchels, the combat crews checked the emergency war plans they had learned by heart in daily briefings in the U.S. and in Morocco, photographic and radar pictures of their preassigned targets in Russia, routes of approach and getaway, estimates of enemy defenses and radar...
...thousand one-night stands and red-lit neon holes from San Diego to Baltimore. In a Beat as Big as a bass-fiddle, tight-drum Hot America. In the dull roar and muted chant of the Juke Box Generation. We shall survive--and prosper. Man, you heard it here...
Stepping briskly past the Lenin-Stalin Mausoleum, where new Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky took the salute that two weeks earlier would have gone to Zhukov, the troops of the Moscow garrison drew a roar of cheers; so did the trim female marchers of the Spartak Sports Club, who carried a large globe around which revolved two model Sputniks. But the hardware that clanked through the world's most effective display case for military might was impressive chiefly for mass rather than quality. Of the 38 different rockets displayed, all were short-range with the possible exception...