Word: thunderers
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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...