Word: thundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eagles sound like thunder in the spring night...
Like a time bomb ticking toward its hour, the Red Army on the south Russian front had waited quietly while up north titanic battles raged. Last week, as Rumania broke with the Axis, the hour, timed with exquisite nicety by the Russians, struck in thunder. From the Carpathians to the Black Sea, the Russians burst forward in their most spectacular and possibly most decisive molnia (Russian version of blitz) of World...
...Italian house two thousand yards behind the front line, I discovered the world's most famous paintings stacked in tiers against the walls, which were still echoing with the thunder of German guns...
Deliverance at Hand. There were no fireworks in Warsaw. That grim, ruined capital rocked with the crash of bombs from Red planes on the rail stations and yards. The ragged, starved, decimated people of Warsaw could also hear the approaching thunder of Russian artillery...
...Parr and wallstrait are puns ("par" and "Wall Street") on the rise & fall of stockmarket values. The immense polysyllable that fol lows the word "fall" is the voice of God's wrath over the fall of man, the crash of Finnegan from the ladder, and the thunder clap that inaugurates a new period of history...