Word: thunderbolt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...event of recent times was the Vatican's decision, while waiting for the City of God, to fight once more for the City of Man. It had openly entered politics. Italian priests issued a solemn warning: Communism is sin. Could the Communists stand up against such a moral thunderbolt...
...Carnival gets off to a gruelling start Friday afternoon with a six mile cross-country trek. On Saturday, slalom and jumping specialists will take the field in what may be the deciding events for the Crimson. Downhill races will be run off Sunday morning on the Thunderbolt trail, Mt. Greylock, to conclude the meet...
...Thunderbolt Language. His first novels Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River, were overwhelming performances: in the face of their mass and virtuosity, what was the use of rebelling against his frequent abuse of the language that he handled as if he were God hurling thunderbolts...
...group (the 14th, at Bangor, Me.) equipped with P-84s, expects to get delivery of the rest by July. Production of Lockheed P-80 Shooting Stars, the U.S.A.F.'s other jet fighter, is already being tapered off. Manufacture of reciprocating-engine planes, such as Republic's Thunderbolt, North American's Mustang and Twin Mustang, has been cut back to little more than production of spare parts...
Moment of Greatness. In 1936, he courageously sacked his own supporter, crooked Minister of War George ("The Thunderbolt") Kondylis, declared an amnesty for anti-royalists, and instituted a liberal Cabinet. For a while George was so popular that his subjects took to wearing monocles, in his fashion. But the spell did not last long; when the anti-royalists became difficult, he permitted the late, pro-German John Metaxas to form an iron dictatorship which lasted till World War II. It was then that George had his moment of greatness. When the Greek people inspired the world by fighting against Italy...