Word: thunderer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...above the average Chinese's means. UNRRA Ford trucks were selling at $3,750 (gold). The Chinese people, starving almost within the dreamlike sight of rich rice and yellow wheat, hardly protested: they were too accustomed to inefficiency and graft. Nevertheless, dawning anger at their plight came like thunder out of China last week. Over 200 local UNRRA officials sent a cable to their boss in Washington: "We have come from many places in the world [to make] UNRRA's goal a reality [but] it is our considered judgment that UNRRA supplies and services are being improperly handled...
West Virginia's diehard Republican Senator Chapman Revercomb rose up on the floor of the Senate to thunder his objections: "I don't want to draft troops to take part in a civil war in China." The little knot of bitter-enders took up the cry. But the Senate, urged on by South Dakota's Republican Senator Chan Gurney, resolutely beat back a last desperate attempt to wreck the draft law, approved (6940-8) a one year's extension to replace the stop-gap bill which expires July...
James M. Cain, 53, cold blood-&-thunder novelist whose second wife complained he once threw her clear across the room, was sued for divorce by Wife No. 3 -oldtime cinema siren Aileen Pringle, 45, who had lasted almost two years with him. The charge: cruelty...
...operators had not offered him in the first place. But he had seldom quoted as fiercely and gloomily from Shakespeare, had seldom endured criticism with more martyr-like fortitude. When it was all over he stood up before the news cameras as though he heard a surf-like thunder of applause...
Died. Captain Norman Mickey ("Bus") Miller, 38, the Navy's legendary one-man aerial task force, most decorated Navy flyer of World War II; of tuberculosis; in Corona, Calif. A hard-bitten combat pilot, he took his battle-scarred Liberator bomber, Thunder Mug, into Truk time & again at mast top level, sank or damaged more than 60 Jap vessels...