Word: thunderations
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...when the first rumblings of Gorbachev's thunder disturbed the moldy Soviet silence, the holy fools on the street--the people who always gather at flea markets and around churches--predicted that the new Czar would rule seven years. They assured anyone interested in listening that Gorbachev was "foretold in the Bible," that he was an apocalyptic figure: he had a mark on his forehead. Everyone had searched for signs in previous leaders as well, but Lenin's speech defect, Stalin's mustache, Brezhnev's eyebrows and Khrushchev's vast baldness were utterly human manifestations. The unusual birthmark...
...marked-up price and pockets the profit. Customs agents also suspect that many distributors simply file phony export-declaration forms and ship directly to problem countries. Last December, Yuri I. Montgomery, an Olympia, Wash., exporter, was indicted on charges of sending South Korean-made stun guns called Thunder Woman and Thunder Blaster to Macedonia in 1992 without Commerce Department approval. Customs agents are now investigating whether the weapons were reshipped from Macedonia to neighboring Kosovo, where ethnic Albanians have been tortured. The cases the Customs Service has uncovered are the tip of the iceberg. "There are definitely other companies...
...President in the highest regard, but not the man [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 16]. President Clinton and his cohort need to come clean and stop blaming everyone else for their troubles. I commend independent counsel Kenneth Starr for his perseverance in the face of denial. Starr didn't bring the thunder down from the heavens onto the Clintons; they did it themselves. I am ashamed that Clinton is still in office. TARYN SANFORD Sheffield...
...Adolf Hitler was Germany's rising star. In 1932 he and his Nazis slipped back to the tune of 2,000,000 lost votes. His thunder was largely stolen by General Kurt von Schleicher, the new Chancellor to whom many a German looks as Man of Next Year." --Jan. 2, 1933 (weeks before Hitler became Chancellor), from Man of the Year profile of Franklin D. Roosevelt
...estimated 200 million people in countries and territories around the world were tuned to CNN as what was supposed to be the Administration's Donahue-style talk show suddenly lurched into an updated version of a Vietnam-era teach-in. The selling of Operation Desert Thunder had become a public relations debacle. But it wasn't just the noisy minority doing what comes naturally to university students, or the obvious discomfort among the TV people on the floor. What really damaged the sales pitch of Washington's three amigos was the questions from scholars, veterans and other upstanding citizens...