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Word: thunderers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commenting on modern adventure writing--he has himself written 25 novels about the sea--he observed, "It's just a racket to make money. As for you masculine writers with their pseudo blood and thunder, it takes more than a pipe to make an author virile...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: First Olympic Champion Quit School To Compete In Games | 10/22/1955 | See Source »

Lightning crashed from the dark skies over London and thunder reverberated in its byways one evening last week, as C-day came to Britain. "Zero hour is on us," intoned a voice over the nation's TV sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: C-Day | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

Behind the Music. In West Berlin last week, the touring choir was greeted by 2,500 Berliners, many of them Mormons themselves. On the station steps, a German Mormon choir burst into the great Mormon hymn, Come, Come Ye Saints, and the Americans joined in to thunder the final phrase: "All is well! all is well!" Next evening in a modernistic gymnasium, they stood scrubbed and friendly before 3,000 paying customers. Thunderous applause greeted the Battle Hymn of the Republic. After that, the choir ran through its religious repertory, from a semi-spiritual (Listen to the Lambs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: From the Tabernacle | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...Desert Island off the coast of Maine, a rosy old man sat tootling on a recorder. "I'm not really musical," he explained to a guest, between puffs, and proceeded to prove it with a squeaky rendition of Finlandia. Suddenly he blew a sour note. "Oh, thunder!" exclaimed Mark Anthony DeWolfe Howe. "That makes me so angry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victorian Valentine | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...Russians sat stock still. Foreign Minister Pinay muttered audibly: "Il les a eus" (He got them). As Ike paused"for the translation of his remarks, there was a clap of thunder and the lights went out. "I didn't mean to turn the lights out," said Ike with a laugh. The translators droned on in the gloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Six Days in Geneva | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

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