Word: thunderclapping
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...fortnight ago, the Kentucky tradition still held good in bloody Harlan County. County Attorney Elmon C. Middleton, a Republican with apparent Laffoon affiliations, climbed into his coupé in front of his house, stepped on the starter. Instantly the machine exploded with a thunderclap, went to pieces like a paper bag. Attorney Middleton died almost instantly. Experts estimated that, had the other 17 sticks of dynamite under the car's hood gone off, the whole neighborhood might have been wrecked. But not one life was lost in the voting three days later...
...wish to applaud with a thunderclap Richard Waller of Le Luc, France, for introducing his splendid idea of creating a family of "Friends of TIME," to guarantee TIME two new subscriptions for every one canceled by saucy letters [TIME...
...produce such a volume of sound does not exist. Western Electric's new loud-speaker-used for the first time at last summer's America's Cup yacht races (TIME, Oct. 8 et ante}-multiplies the power of the human voice a millionfold, delivers thunderclap announcements with the force of 50-lb. hammer blows, makes itself heard for miles & miles in still air. Even so all but a few of the most intelligible speech frequencies must be filtered out, so that the words, though understandable, remain distorted...
Abruptly a thunderclap resounded as a blinding arc leaped from ball to ball. Other flashes followed in a steady crackling punctuated by deafening reports. The air was pungent with ozone. Through the din Dr. Van de Graaff bellowed...
...First thunderclap of the present crisis: collapse in Vienna of Kreditanstalt, colossal Rothschild bank, which is taken over by the Austrian Government, shaking confidence in related German banks...