Word: thunderations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...millenniums, men came and went in this vast expanse and scarcely left a mark. Ancient hunters in animal skins tracked the mammoth through the taiga-the deep silent forests of pines and birches. Nomadic tribesmen pushed up from the south, grazing their cattle and roaming on. Then the thunder of horses reverberated across the steppes, bearing the predatory banners of Genghis Khan. Chinese prospectors ranged northward to comb the wilderness for ginseng roots, the source of miraculous cures. The land echoed with the sad clanking of the chains that fettered the czars' prisoners, and then with the sighs...
Over the past year, AIM supporters have gone into a number of communities in South Dakota and Nebraska, seeking to investigate charges of discrimination against Indians. In early 1972, AIM forced an investigation into the seemingly casual killing in Gordon, Neb., of a 51-year-old Sioux, Raymond Yellow Thunder, by a group of whites. (The whites are now out on bond.) Negotiating in several other communities, AIM won some promises of improved conditions and at least the beginning of a dialogue with usually unfriendly whites. On the other hand, a month ago, in Custer...
...muffled thunder of outgoing artillery fire could be heard in Saigon up to the end-and after, as the fighting stubbornly rattled on. Yet, when the moment arrived at 8 a.m. last Sunday, the sound of sirens and church bells took over the teeming streets. Policemen whistled motorists and Honda drivers to a stop to observe a minute of silence for the 183,500 South Vietnamese troops who had died in battle since their country was created in the last Viet Nam settlement at Geneva 19 years...
...streets of Saigon were filled with joy and vengeance on Nov. 1, 1963-the day that South Vietnamese generals stormed Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential palace and sent him to his grave. First came the long night of siege and the thunder of tanks in battle at the palace walls. Then came the final rush through the grounds by Diem's once faithful soldiers. As the battle subsided, I caught the first glimpse of a white flag waving tentatively from a first-floor palace window. In a minute or so the air was filled with silence-and with...
Last week the people of Heimaey awoke in the middle of the night to find that the Helgafell volcano, dormant for 5,000 years, had exploded on their doorstep. As the earth rumbled like thunder and showers of molten lava lit up the sky, villagers in night clothes poured into the streets to watch the terrifying spectacle. After one home was engulfed by boiling lava and hot ashes began to rain down on others, Heimaey's 5,200 residents were ordered evacuated...