Word: thunderbolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dropped antipersonnel grenades on the city of Zacapa, and the government began evacuating civilians. A Thunderbolt worked over a troop train near by and stopped it. Soldiers leaped from the cars and melted into the countryside; some of them reportedly went over to the rebels...
...illustrations from an old edition of Bulfinch's Mythology. With all the subtle reserve of Victorian design, one medallion contains a Roman corselet, a sword and a helmet, shields, sprays of laurel leaves, Roman faces, spear heads, part of a fortress, and, topping all, an American eagle bearing a thunderbolt...
...were boring a 3,500-ft. river-diversion tunnel, blasting a huge underground powerhouse from the bowels of a mountain. The air was blue with humidity; the sides of the cavern dripped water; every so often, a chunk of rock broke loose, came crashing down like a thunderbolt in a closet. The men knew that they might catch amoebic dysentery, malaria, or many another crippling tropical disease, that it would rain every day, that they would not see their families for months...
...news struck the capital like a thunderbolt. It marked the first time that the loyalty of a U. S. scientist of Oppenheimer's imposing stature had been revealed under investigation. From the Boston Herald of April...
Attempting to hastle according to the stage directions, Stanley Holloway leads the cast as the liquor-loveing philanthropist. He is effective in several of the early scenes, but finally succumbs to the thinness of the story. Hugh Griffith playing the Thunderbolt's fireman delivers the most convincing performances. Unfortunately, only a few laughs depend upon his part...