Word: thundered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weren't for Swifty a dog race would be little different from a race between eight midget horses. Instead of the classic "They're off!" and the clanging bell soon drowned in the thunder of hooves you hear "Theeeere goes SWIFty!!" and a white, shiny, stuffed, vulgar mechanical rabbit on the end of a pole whirs in front of the hounds, who scramble after in mad pursuit...
...main north-south highway, Route 1, which runs along the coast. And she could provide devastating ground support for Marine operations around the Demilitarized Zone. Though it may cost as much as $25 million and take about a year to modernize the New Jersey, chances are good that the thunder of the battlewagons will be heard once more...
...roar, and the ammunition began exploding, nicely silhouetting the attackers as targets for the Marines. "I kept telling my men, just hang on until dawn and we'll be all right," said Sergeant Richard Anderson, a squad leader. They did, and the dawn came up with the welcome thunder of U.S. fighter-bombers. The North Vietnamese fled back out through the wire, leaving behind 196 dead. The outnumbered Marines held the camp, but at the cost of 44 dead and 140 wounded...
While the Marines fought their way to victory on the hilltops, the planes of Operation Rolling Thunder, code name for the U.S. air campaign over the North, continued to cripple the North's military potential. Having already knocked out the 738-ft. Canal des Rapides bridge, over which all supplies coming by rail from Red China funnel into Hanoi, U.S. pilots went to work last week chewing up the spider web of rail yards and lines north of the bridge. Time and again they hit other key targets on Hanoi's outskirts, including the Ha Dong army barracks...
Strick, or his scriptwriters, must also be commended for the judicious selection of dialogue fragments here. Often, in Bloom's imaginings, single faces fill the screen as they thunder a brief phrase, then vanish and aren't heard from again. We have seen a bit of this in Lester's The Knack, but how much more delightful to have such phrases be Joyce's, to have instead of "Mods and Rockers!" Theodore Purefoy's faithfully Catholic, "He employs a mechanical device to frustrate the sacred ends of nature!" or to have a solemn diagnostician pronounce. "He was born...