Word: thunderation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nature, when masses of ice begin to melt, then fissure, they can make a sort of thunder, a great bass popping that echoes for miles. It is a startling noise. In Washington and Moscow last week there was a similarly surprising noise that sounded, just maybe, like the first tremors of a thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations. It came Thanksgiving Day, with officials in each country reading identical statements to reporters. At the White House, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane delivered the tidings deadpan. "The United States and the Soviet Union have agreed to enter into new negotiations," he reported...
Antonia Moreno was getting her husband Rafael, a warehouse janitor, off to work. "The earth shook and we heard thunder," she recalled. "We could see flames all over the sky and a lot of black smoke." The couple fled with two of their children (two others were spending the night with their grandmother). They dashed out of their tin-roofed, corrugated-cardboard hillside house and began running. They saw their neighbors running too, many in their nightshirts or underwear. "Some people were half-naked, and they burned their feet because the ground was so hot," Antonia Moreno said. "Nobody...
...must level, yield and plead. He must take action and then assume responsibility. The army of technocrats who run campaigns doesn't want to give up the raucous joy of the hustings. The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget...
Copaken has a small part in a romantic comedy about relationships in the 1980's, which stars Daniel Stern (Diner, Breaking Away, Blue Thunder) and Brooke Adams (Dead Zone, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Lace, a made for TV movie...
...might read these words with skepticism, sensing only an emotional exaggeration of the sentiment that has enveloped the city. But you must be here to appreciate the thunder, and you must understand the city of Detroit to understand why we have been captivated and why I, like the rest of the city, have been swept away...