Word: thunderbolting
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...Nuclear Thunderbolt. Not until mid-July, after he had pushed his conscription bill through a reluctant Bundestag, did Adenauer discover how justified his uneasiness was. Then, like a thunderbolt, came press reports that Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had proposed that the U.S. chop its armed forces from 2,800,000 men to 2,000.000 by 1960, in keeping with the development of nuclear weapons. To Germans the so-called Radford plan-and Sir Anthony Eden's prompt hints that Britain, too, planned to "go nuclear"-clearly foreshadowed a reduction in the number...
Cork Popper. Meet Ella Beecher, 16 years old and unhappy on a western Kansas farm in 1914. Mother is an Old Testament termagant in gingham, a Puritan who never tires of inveighing against sin, fun and sloth, who can drop the appropriate Biblical thunderbolt at the popping of a cork or the inadvertent sign of simple happiness. Daddy, not unnaturally, has taken to popping corks, and brother Joe has married a woman as unlike his mother as the countryside can offer. In rapid succession, the father dies of a stroke after a drinking bout, Joe's lovable wife dies...
...McDonald persuaded negotiators to sit around the table to discuss this year's contract−instead of across the table from each other. Then he suggested that the table be taken away altogether so they could just sit around. Even on the eve of the strike, the worst thunderbolt that McDonald could think of to hurl at Big Steel management was "These people are still thinking in terms of the '30s. The backward look returns to the steel industry...
Died. Ralph S. Damon, 58, president of Trans World Airlines; of pneumonia, in Mineola, N.Y. Energetic, inquisitive Harvardman ('18) Damon learned to fly before he learned to drive a car, was an air cadet in World War I, put the famed P47 Thunderbolt into mass production in World War II. Air travelers are in debted to Damon for helping develop 1) the first all-sleeper transport plane, and 2) low-cost tourist travel on both domestic and international lines...
This was a fact brought home to her with the force of a thunderbolt one day early last week when she picked up a copy of the London Times, which up to then had maintained a stern silence on her romance. Wedlock with a divorced man, warned the Times, would require the Princess to enter into "a union which vast numbers of her sister's people, all sincerely anxious for her lifelong happiness, cannot in all conscience regard as a marriage." The peoples of her sister's Commonwealth, it went on, "would see her step down from...