Word: thunderclap
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...first warning thunderclap came on the second night of the convention...
...other kakemono is realistic, and proves that Kyosai was a sharp-eyed son of Japan's feudal age, which was, like Europe's, an age of falconry. It also shows why the wind god is in such a hurry: a naturalistically painted eagle, sudden as a thunderclap, is swooping down...
Washington got a surprise this week when the House Un-American Activities Committee opened its investigation into Communism in Hollywood. It started with a thunderclap...
...tremendous thunderclap, the Grandcamp vanished. Hot steel screamed uptown. A flaming wall of oil-covered water rolled over the docks as the blast picked up a steel barge and flung it 100 yards inland. Two light planes that had been circling over the harbor plummeted down together with 300-lb. chunks of ship's steel. Then, in a splitting series of explosions (one of which flipped a fire truck on top of the beached barge), the Monsanto plant and most of the rest of the waterfront blew...
Plainly flustered, he stood for a moment as if expecting more debate. Instead came a sharp thunderclap from Churchill: "This is a matter of life and death; will the Colonial Secretary not get off and send his telegram now?" Creech-Jones retreated, a few minutes later slipped out and sent his telegram. (Result: the execution was postponed and Gold Coast Governor Sir Alan Burns huffily threatened to resign over this kibitzing by the House...