Word: roaring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Smithfield Show, Britain's largest agricultural exhibition, is normally a roistering barnyard symphony of bleats, moos and grunts. But this year virtually the only sound to be heard in the show grounds at London's cavernous Earl's Court was the occasional roar of a tractor. For the first time in memory not a single animal was competing for the Smithfield's blue ribbons. The reason: one of the most virulent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in modern British history...
...path of his one-week siege, Nixon struck out at Kennedy with ever sharper accusations of naivete and fear-spreading ("It's time to hot things up a bit, don't you think?" he asked one audience). Nearly everywhere churning, cheering crowds smashed to the depots to roar their encouragement as he countered the Kennedy campaign theme ("All of this yakking about America with no sense of purpose, all of this talk about America being second-rate-I'm tired of it and I don't want to hear any more talk about it") and pounded...
...Small. As the week began, the uncommitted scarcely realized how important they had become. Then Nikita Khrushchev strode to the podium to roar Dag Hammarskjold into submission. Hammarskjold, cried Khrushchev, had tried to justify "the bloody crimes perpetrated against the Congolese people by the colonialists and their stooges. It is not proper for a man who has flouted elementary justice to hold such an important post as that of Secretary-General." Khrushchev demanded that Hammarskjold "muster up enough courage to resign...
...would do better to explain why they have consistently denied the right of self-determination to the people of East Germany." Khrushchev glowered. Macmillan went on to lay the blame for the failure of past disarmament negotiations on Moscow's refusal to accept workable controls. Khrushchev's roar rang through the chamber. "You accept our disarmament proposals," he shouted, "and we will accept any form of controls...
...sweltering Lagos one night last week, throngs surged toward the gaily decorated race track, where bands played and dancers swayed. Precisely at midnight, a mighty roar went up as a green-white-green flag was hauled aloft to replace the Union Jack. With that, Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation (36 million), became independent and took its place in the councils of the world. Solemnly, 40,-ooo voices rose in the new official anthem...