Word: thundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Continent. About the third millennium B.C. he rebelled against her, seizing her sacred hammer or ax or sickle, and is credited in some versions of the myth with having seduced her ; afterwards he set himself up as an authoritarian, patriarchal Thunder-god and kept her in subjection. His tragi-comic destiny (as appears in the poem) is to grow senile and be demoted to a mere God of Revels, a greasy Santa Claus...
...short time after a rare desert rain, the lake has no water. Its smooth and precisely level surface is cement-hard dark-red mud. Its one surface craft is a weathered wooden dummy battleship, built long ago as a bomber target. Above it, in the bright desert sky, thunder the real craft of Muroc Dry Lake...
Chuck Yeager could not see much, but he had plenty to do. Swiftly he checked the instruments, tried the controls and adjusted his oxygen mask. Outside he could hear the thunder of the B-29's great engines and feel the vibration as the bomber climbed higher & higher. He felt it wheel on a turn, and heard Major Cardenas' voice on the radio: "Am turning on downwind leg at 21,000 ft." Then the bomber wheeled again. "Am turning on the base leg," said Major Cardenas. "Five minutes to drop time...
...along to customers savings which had come the company's way because of cheaper materials and better labor productivity. Since the company is the industry's guinea pig in this year's negotiations with the C.I.O. United Auto Workers, the move also stole some of the thunder from the union's imminent contract demands...
With the approach of autumn, Buenos Aires' good airs cleared perceptibly. The distant thunder that had muttered ominously through Argentina's hot political summer rumbled no more. Businessmen who called on cabinet ministers last week noted a new air of confidence...