Word: thundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sergeant Nelson of the Guards is part fact, part fiction; part Coldstream history, part Coldstream rag-chewing. It is also the most blood-&-thunder, swashbuckling, superpatriotic book of World War II; an American equivalent might be a history of the U.S. Marine Corps written by General George S. Patton Jr., Margaret Mitchell and Fred Allen. Gerald Kersh's Coldstreamers think they are a match for anything on earth in toughness, discipline and homespun philosophy. Author Kersh thinks...
...legislature adjourned, Organist Raboin pushed his little organ out to the Capitol's echoing rotunda. He sat down, idly began playing The Lost Chord. After a few notes he stopped, awed. The Capitol dome, fourth highest in the world, had amplified the organ notes to rolling musical thunder. Raboin experimented. He discovered that by sounding different notes on a low pedal he could create sympathetic vibrations in the rotunda of the Capitol. The effect was terrifying. The sound rose to an eerie roar. It rattled the windows, shook doors, threatened to bring down the 5½-ton chandelier suspended...
...Antwerp people close doors softly and talk in low voices. Hollow-eyed citizens, clinging to their homes, skulk through the ruined streets. Antwerp is a city of suspense-until suspense is broken by the thunder of guns and the put-put of V-1 robot bombs...
...THUNDER - Frederic Prokosch - Harper ($2.50). Once again the author of The Conspirators silkily mixes mysticism and melodrama in an allegorical account of an underground agent's mission. In search of the spiritual dry rot besetting occupied France, the agent, Jean-Nicolas Martin, finds meaning for his own life in the love of a darkly beautiful Italian miss...
...Boat & Bridge. At 2:45 a.m. the earth leaped to the thunder of thousands of guns. There were 240-mm monsters, Long Toms. 1055, 755. The guns of tanks and tank destroyers, flak artillery and captured German rockets joined the barrage. A quarter-million shells fell on the German positions. But some Germans lived to answer with mortars and artillery zeroed in on the river crossings...