Word: thunderations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fumbled with a match, burning my fingers on the first try, dropping it on the second. I finally connected flame to fuse, trembling in anticipation of a blow-up in my face. BOOM. A flaming pink ball shot out. I could feel the explosive force as I clenched the "Thunder Buster" roman candle tube, and I began to aim thundering blasts of white, green and pink at the battalion of surrounding trees--my own sandlot Star Wars...
More important than all the political gambits and the thunder from both ends of the spectrum will be the testimony of one man. "If you are looking for a secret weapon in the upcoming confirmation hearings," says Hatch, "it is Judge Robert Bork. The longer he testifies before the Judiciary Committee, the more persuasive and reasoned his philosophy of judicial restraint will sound." Armed with an agile mind and a caustic wit, Bork is expected to be a formidable opponent for his critics on the committee. "Any Senator who decides to just jump in and portray Bork as some racist...
...loved ones at the front, there is the fear of a revival of the "war of the cities," which flared up again early this year when Tehran and other urban centers were bombed by Iraqi planes. Since then the attacks have abated, but the nervousness remains. When a severe thunder-and-lightning storm struck the capital last month, causing heavy flooding, some city dwellers thought an air raid was in progress and rushed to an underground passageway, where an unknown number drowned in the torrent...
...Thunder Bay's Rick Mulligan scored a goal in each of the first two periods--when this contest was not yet a joke--and SLU wing Dave Saunders, the pride and joy of Munster Hamlet, notched a goal and two assists to lead St. Lawrence to a 7-0 thrashing of the Bulldogs...
With the entire St. Lawrence first line hailing from Ontario, Canada, it's not very surprising that a young man from Thunder Bay helped lead the Larries to a victory over Yale last night in the first game of the ECAC semifinals...