Word: thundered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mount Sinai was all in smoke, for the Lord had come down upon it in fire; the smoke rose like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled violently... As Moses spoke, God answered him in thunder...
...sounds of praise and ecstatic celebration filled Lowell House's Junior Common Room yesterday as about 70 people joined in a tribute to Shango, the spirit of lightning and thunder in the Santeria tradition...
Cherry's songs are like clouds on a spring day: bright and rather lofty. Although this album could have benefited from a bit more thunder and lightning, there is a lot to admire here. Cherry addresses varied topics from drug addiction to the relationship between fathers and children; his sound, meanwhile, is a soothing mix of pop with bluesy coloring. The son of jazz trumpeter Don, and the brother of hip-hop star Neneh, Cherry is living up to the family name...
...Thunder may roll, lightning may flash, the wind may blow, but we must never leave the American house. This is our house," he said...
...buzz of flies from a carcass." The memories, eloquently relived and regretted, are of grotesque cultural arrogance, unraveling in a very small place. Rumblings of the Congo's struggle for independence from Belgium--and U.S. plotting to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, the new nation's first Prime Minister--are distant thunder in Kingsolver's tale. Her story, a symbolic parallel to the national upheaval, takes place in an isolated village. Nathan Price, an evangelical Baptist preacher, fanaticism in bitter parody, lugs his wife, daughters and rigid preconceptions to Kilanga, a small jungle settlement, where faith plays out as farce...