Word: thunderclap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...events which sent M. Pashitch hurrying to his King were typical of many a Balkan crisis. The country had supposed that Foreign Minister Nintchitch* was in close touch with Premier Mussolini, and also that the new Jugoslav-born President Zogu of Albania was under his thumb. Like a thunderclap had come the news that Albania and Italy had concluded a mutual accord (TIME, Dec. 13). A rumor spread that this treaty contained secret military clauses which would make Albania an Italian pistol pointed at Jugoslavia. Suspicion, fear, hate seethed. Evidently Foreign Minister Nintchitch was a fool. He had pursued...
...Weekly, famed 16-page clean tabloid hodgepodge. My paper entertains with pictures of Mrs. Leo nard Kip Rhinelander, Iowa's champion grandma, mother and child hippopotami - all sandwiched in between "sillygisms" and other little quips. Fortnight ago, one of my editors conceived this one: 'A great thunderclap shook the earth during a shower. "Wow," exclaimed a colored citizen standing under an awning. "Hell done laid a aig."' But my little paper is not facetious. Every week it contains a good solid column by Arthur Brisbane and an editorial by myself. When I do not have time...
With an unexpectedness that was as unnerving as a thunderclap he twisted the tail of Senor Quinones' butterfly resolution into a hornet's sting; proposed an amendment that would give the League power to make "regional compacts" binding on the whole world, with a force as rigid as that once contemplated in drawing up the Protocol...