Word: thundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something short of a masterpiece was Thunder Over Mexico, which Upton Sinclair and other backers got old Hollywood hand Sol Lesser to patch together from their cinematic mountain after Director Eisenstein quarreled with Sinclair and went huffing back to Russia (TIME, May 2, 1932). But U. S. radicals, who accused Sinclair and Lesser of sabotage, and other admirers of Director Eisenstein persisted in the belief that Critic Wilson was right. Their laments made the movie Eisenstein had originally projected as Viva Mexico the most celebrated incomplete work of art since Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. The news that...
...Republican National Convention opened in an atmosphere of finality. All over the U. S., prophecies were heard that, unless the Republican Party chose the right man and the right platform, it would disappear in a clap of political thunder...
...seph Pétain thought of "those who have been fighting, true to their old military tradition, against an enemy of huge numerical superiority; ... of those old combatants whom I commanded during the last war; ... of the men and women on the roads, driven away from their homes." Amid thunder's boom and the crackle of lightning that made radios rasp, Frenchmen heard him ask for peace...
...last, when the cutting-room floor was knee deep in yards of discarded inspiration, Warner Brothers were ready to expose their biggest picture of 1940 to autopsical critics and a public stunned into advance reverence by the thunder of advance publicity...
...struggle was protracted and fierce. Suddenly the scene has cleared. The crash and thunder has momentarily, but only for the moment, died away. The miracle of deliverance achieved by the valor and perseverance, perfect discipline, faultless service, skill and unconquerable vitality is a manifesto...