Word: thunderation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week began peacefully enough in Manila. The government had purposely avoided head-on confrontation with opposition demonstrators and had even tried to steal some of their thunder by staging a rally of its own in Makati, Metro Manila's financial district. A special bulletin signed by the vice governor of the Metropolitan Manila Commission (Imelda Marcos, the President's powerful, unpopular wife, is the governor) was distributed to commission employees. "Attendance is a must," it decreed. "Record of attendance must be submitted to personnel management .. . Do not wear uniforms...
Today's game shapes up to be a cliff hanger, and it could become a battle of the boots, with Army's star place-kicker Craig Stopa or Harvard thunder foot Jim Villanueva kicking the deciding field goal...
...Mandarin, Theodore H. White made his way to China and found a land in turmoil. Settling in Chiang Kai-shek's wartime capital of Chongqing (Chungking), then a drowsy Yangtze River port with a population of 250,000, he soon began reporting from there for TIME. One book (Thunder Out of China, 1946), two wars (China against Japan, China against itself) and six eventful years later, he departed, in sharp disagreement with TIME'S Editor-in-Chief, Henry R. Luce, about China's future. In the decades since, he has chronicled some of the major events of our time, from...
...replaced him in office: the Rev. T.J. (for Theodore Judson) Jemison, 63, who also told the gathering, "We must permit our convention to become program-centered rather than personality-centered. We must be ready to step aside and let others take our place." Jemison went on to thunder, "When you're leading people, you can't lead without civil rights. Brothers and sisters, we are moving into the mainstream...
Displaying military power, with all its bands and thunder, can become dangerously addictive. And dispatching battle units can begin to look like the cleanest, easiest exercise of power that a President can undertake. The ships and planes are magnificent machines, the crews totally responsive. Orders are instantly carried out, unlike those given in the glutenous world of Government...