Word: thundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accompaniment of eerie music and the sound of loud explosions, a succession of breathless news announcers pleaded with Parisians not to panic. "You are helpless in any case," they added. They begged listeners to remain calm "even if you see sudden flashes in the sky, hear claps of thunder; if the earth quakes, lights fail, electric motors stop and you sense . . . loss of equilibrium...
...cabaret owner, who took her inside, made her sing in her threadbare skirt and sweater. After her first song there was a sepulchral silence. "A thousand thoughts went through my mind," she says. "Did my miserable appearance make them feel ashamed?" Then the hall broke into a long thunder of applause. Maurice Chevalier rose to his feet and cried: "Elle en a plein le ventre, la môme" ("The kid's got plenty of stuff...
There was little music. For spaces of half an hour at a time there was only the scuffing cadence of polished boots, the applause, the window-rattling thunder of newly painted Sherman tanks, of 45-ton self-propelled 8-inch howitzers, of Long Toms, jeeps and ambulances...
Next morning the truce was drafted. From the rostrum of the opening session of the Political Consultation Conference, the Generalissimo proclaimed the news amid a thunder of applause. Cried Chungking's Ta Kung Pao: "General Marshall . . . has achieved merit of global proportions...
Paradoxically, the only teams up to full strength were the Rangers and the Maple Leafs, both hopelessly bogged in the league cellar. But they could offer home-town fans plenty of real blood & thunder on the artificial ice-and the rabid fans...