Word: thunderers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Basketball scandals have, perhaps, stolen some of the thunder from these revelations. But no one at all interested in intercollegiate football can have missed their significance. Judges, senators, presidents of universities with nationally-ranked football teams, coaches, and athletic directors have reviled the present relationship of football to education and the depravity it has bred...
Last week Colonel Prendergast climbed into his Thunder jet, took off on his 27th combat mission, a standard workhorse job-cutting enemy rail lines near Sinan-ju. Mission completed, he was leading his formation home when he got word that the landing field at Taegu was all but socked in by weather, and that several score orbiting planes were stacked up there waiting their turns to land. Prendergast led his men to another field, saw them head in safely, one by one, then started down himself. He was making his final approach when he ran out of fuel...
Wilson's blood & thunder speech may have been intended only as a pep talk to get badly needed scrap rolling into steel mills. But it shocked steelmen who wondered where Wilson got the figures. If DPA had privately made such a gloomy report on a drop in steel production, why had NPA estimated that steelmen will produce 400,000 tons more steel in the first quarter of 1952 than in this year's last quarter? Furthermore, how did Wilson expect to get more steel next year when he had permitted DPA to slash the steel industry...
...Weatherman Gromyko, whose head pops out when storms impend, just as Jacob Malik sometimes emerges to indicate clearing skies, might thunder against the Japanese treaty but he could not prevent it. The State Department had drafted a tough set of procedural rules which forbid amendments, limit each delegation to one hour's formal comment, rule out debate on points of order. But these rules must be adopted formally by the conference itself, which may give Gromyko a chance to get in his propaganda licks first. His audience will be vast: the treaty sessions in San Francisco's Opera...
Songs at Twilight. Thanks to economies and the World War II boom, the empire was restored to health, and its emperor to some of the power he had wielded of old. In a sense, his kind of journalism had had its sensationalized thunder stolen as long ago as the '20s, with the rise of the tabloids...