Word: thundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue of TIME you copied Senator Norbeck's blabberdash taken from Outlook. Senator Norbeck told nothing about the Black Hills worth knowing. He mentions Mt. Harney but he does not say what Gen. W. S. Harney did to the Indians. He does not mention the massacre of Little Thunder, a peaceful Chief who happened to have his camp in the line of Harney's march. He does not mention the Red Cloud war. Nor does he mention the solemn treaties the Government made at different times with the Indians and then violated foully. Nor does he mention that...
...itself, making the rambling accounts of Creation and the Fall and the Flood seem almost conversational. It is a funeral sermon, and one of the really great poems of U. S. literature. It tells how God, one morning, had a tall, bright angel cry out like a clap of thunder...
...high they looked like a pair of mating canvas backs, hummed over the reedy bays, bound for Hampton Roads from Philadelphia. Off New Point Comfort they slanted down. The sky was scowling, muttering. Angry lightnings flickered. The Bay began to hiss and crackle under a heavy downpour. The thunder raised its shouts to a cannonade...
During March a rumble of warning came when seven banks suspended payments. The first thunder clap (TIME, April 18), was the announcement by Japan's richest woman, Mme. Yone Suzuki that her enormous importing and exporting firm would delay payments on its $250,000,000 obligations. Forthwith came another thunderbolt-suspension by the great Bank of Taiwan, chief creditor of Suzuki...
Over Greenwood, Miss., a long, streaming V of wild geese beat their way north from the Gulf of Mexico into a thunder storm. Flares and crashes tore up the smooth formation. Geese swooped for coverage. Twenty-six dropped, plumb, dead, onto the farm of Robert Townes...