Word: thunderclapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene abruptly ends with a thunderclap of silence...
Spain had suffered through a dry, hot summer. Last week, as Barcelona's 1,750,000 people celebrated the Festival of Our Lady of Mercy, the agonizing drought ended. There was a promising thunderclap and as the winds rose, the city's lights failed; in darkness, Barcelonians climbed to the roofs of their houses to welcome the rain. But soon, as one woman put it, "the water turned into a monster...
...shovels, or how much tennis he plays, or how far he walks. But man's nervous system is a data-processing mechanism that regulates the rate and rhythm of the heart without regard to the volume or energy of the signals it receives. Bright sunlight or a thunderclap may have no effect on the heart; a vital message read in semidarkness or a whisper that "A.T. & T. has fallen 30 points" may send the heart racing faster than it would during a hard set of tennis...
...hawk-nosed little man raised his arms, as if in benediction, and 1,000 Peruvian Indians at the airport in the remote jungle town of Iquitos responded with a thunderclap cheer: "Haya presidente! APRA never dies!" The visitor beamed, waved, headed a parade over a red dirt road into town, and there delivered a fiery, fist-shaking speech in a plaza ringed by royal palms and mango trees. "Five centuries ago millions of Incas lived well in Peru," he cried. "There is no reason we cannot do better today!" "APRA, APRA!" screamed the crowd...
...three. It is the thunderclap of a sonic boom produced by a supersonic aircraft, and the nerve-ragging whine and roar of jetliners as they take off and land. Together they add up to a sore domestic problem that will increase in quantum jumps in the years ahead...