Word: thunderclap
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...limousine driver named Frank Musicaro, 48, was placing a call on his tie line to Dispatcher Jeanne McDonald. "I got my Wantagh passenger," he said. "Where do you want me to go next?" She was about to answer when there was a brilliant white Light and a deafening thunderclap in the terminal. The dispatcher heard the explosion clearly over the phone. "Frankie! Frankie!" she called...
...midst of Watergate the men around the former President used to talk about some kind of thunderclap that would sweep away the whole mess by the next dawn. They tried speeches, statements, overseas trips and transcripts. None of it worked...
...liberal paper that exulted over Agnew's fall was the Berkshire Eagle. It called the resignation a "thunderclap of good news" that "removed from the proximity of the Oval Office a grotesque and long dead albatross whose reek was besmirching the American image everywhere." From the right wing, Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader Editor-Publisher William Loeb let stand a preresignation editorial that had blasted news leaks damaging to Agnew. In a brief updating statement, Loeb voiced his paper's "regret" that the "vicious distorters in the press now have a chance to get off the hook...
Still, as readers of Monk Dawson and The Professor's Daughter already know, he can roll a mean thunderclap and make it spell damnation...
...determining spring's arrival is to walk down to the Coop annex on Saturday afternoon. If you hear a lot of loud music, see some freaks milling around, and bargain hunters scouring the record racks at a celebrated "sidewalk" sale (actually it is a garage) for a copy of Thunderclap Newman, then you know that spring...