Word: thunderations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this thunder now, especially from a President whose tax cuts and military spending increases obviously had something to do with the deficits that he now decries? Explained a top Reagan aide: "Ronald Reagan will be cast as the guy who wants to keep down taxes. That is important politically." For the White House, the acrimonious struggle in the Senate to pass a budget resolution had become virtually irrelevant. Declared a presidential aide: "We've pretty well made up our minds on a budget strategy, no matter what the Senate does." The plan, he went on, is for Reagan...
...BLUE THUNDER Directed by John Badham...
...Wiesel's fierce tales were born of silence. After his liberation, he refused to speak on the subject of the Jewish agony. With good reason. Wiesel lost his mother and younger sister at the first "selection"; his father died soon afterward. "Children for me," he recalled, "evoke war, thunder and hate, shouts, screams, dogs howling." He was to search for ten years before he found a vocabulary that allowed him to articulate the unspeakable...
...Fleet Street, other editors pounced on Stern and the rival Sunday Times with a vengeance that in this instance seemed justified. "It was the day the thunder of the Times turned into a whimper and the Sunday Times was forced to sniff the stench of self-deceit," crowed the Daily Express. Its story accused "the executives" of Stern and the Sunday Times of having committed "the biggest journalistic blunder for years...
...candidacy--as Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) has begun to do and as much of the Democratic left is likely to press for--he risks having his chief issue defused by a Reagan initiative. The 1972 analogy is enlightening: George McGovern, the Democrats' "peace" candidate, found his thunder stolen by Richard Nixon's late-October announcement that "Peace is at hand...