Word: thunderclapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mood or that of the audience, Tree is apt to walk down an aisle, rhythmically striking a gong or gently shaking a pair of copper baby rattles from Japan. Onstage, he may build a sonorous tremolo of several gongs, mixing in a tinkling of glass chimes or a booming thunderclap of timpani. At times he pauses, changes mood, and elicits long, random notes from a homemade North African-style flute or dramatically raises a six-foot Tibetan temple horn and blows a resounding blast. The concert is over when Tree feels it should end, sometimes after 45 minutes, sometimes after...
...with the context. Instead the audience sits bored-except for Miss York's beautiful and exposed chest--by the tameness of the sex, and tensely awaiting the fade-out to signify.... Suddenly Sister George walks into the room and the thread of the story is picked up with a thunderclap, rather than merely resumed with the more usual "fifty minutes later" effect...
...Thunderclap of Ayes. The 90th Congress' crushing consensus was evident from the start of the session. The first move was up to the Democrats, and aging Speaker John McCormack declared himself opposed to any disciplinary action. But he quickly ran into a buzz saw of revolt. Liberals led by Morris Udall of Arizona, brother of Interior Secretary Stewart, angrily told the Speaker of constituent pressure to do something about Powell. Shouted Udall: "I've got to go back to my people!" Insisted McCormack: "We shouldn...
...McCormack substitute" devised by the Speaker, which would have merely suspended Powell from his chairmanship pending investigation, went down in humiliating defeat, 122 to 88. Then, in a thunderclap of ayes, Udall's resolution was shouted through by voice vote. The action handed Powell's chairmanship to the committee's second-ranking Democrat, Carl Perkins, a quiet Kentuckian and moderate liberal...
...touched," De Gaulle began. "I bring you the greetings of the Parisian people and the people of France." Then, in perfectly polished Russian: "Long live Moscow! Long live Russia! Long live friendship between France and Russia!" At that cry, the lowering summer skies of Moscow burst with a Wagnerian thunderclap, lightning bolts crackled among the onion domes of the Kremlin, and the rain came streaming down...