Word: thunderclapping
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...memory. With a series of semaphore cues that almost sent him clambering on the stage, Sawallisch brought order out of chaos while Soprano Birgit Nilsson improvised for several measures. But the third act went off with well-oiled precision, and the audience responded with cheering, stamping, and a thunderclap of applause...
...favor of Mr. White. Isolated in a drawn circle, the two stared and glared away for days, without flinching or even growing a whisker. When Mr. White seemed to falter, a little girl rushed into the forbidden circle with a dipper of water and suddenly collapsed in a thunderclap. Who turned away from the staring match to help her? Mr. Black, who thereby lost the match but established more convincing angelic credentials-and helped to show that black and white are not always what they seem, and even the grey of skepticism may serve a lofty...
There was a hush of astonishment, then a thunderclap of applause. Weeks later in the election of 1906, Liberal Party Candidate Joseph Pierre René Hilaire Belloc reaped his reward by scraping home in South Salford null a majority of 852 and becoming the first and last British M.P. to win a seat despite being a French-born Catholic, an author, a confessed radical and an avowed lover of good drink...
...gathered outside the little Burgundy village of Saint-Yan (pop. 859) seemed remnants of an earlier era-a time when flying was still for the birds or for men who wished to emulate them. No stub-winged jets waited to scream aloft, riding the thrust of a man-made thunderclap. These were sleek sailplanes, slim-winged, frail, and built to soar on the least suspicion of a breeze. Their pilots had come from 25 countries for the fifth postwar international gliding championships...
...thunderclap of ecclesiastical anger cracked last week around the ears of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Colombia's Roman Catholic President. It was set off by the Lenten pastoral letter of Crisanto Cardinal Luque, couched in the measured terms of churchly tradition, yet unmistakably a cry of cold indignation against the recent bull ring massacre (TIME, Feb. 20) in which Rojas' political opponents were maimed and killed by government thugs for having booed his daughter at the bullfights the week before...