Word: thunderers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chappie's car delivered the colonel at the front door of the little reservation school, Visiting Chief Thunder Cloud split the air with a lusty war whoop of welcome. Movie cameras from the Trib's Chicago television station ground away as the colonel stalked stiffly in and took his seat on the schoolhouse stage...
...Hunt. As each plane begins to roll down the runway, a vast, bright flame bursts from its tail. This is the afterburner: extra fuel dumped into the tail pipe to give extra power. The flame looks as big as the airplane, and it roars like continuous thunder. It shoots the plane forward and then upward as if a gigantic elevator were pulling it into the sky. As the plane rises almost vertically, the great flame shrinks to a small, bright point like a moving star. Then it blinks out suddenly; the fighter is at its search altitude, and the stealthy...
...most impressive sound in the world, the thunder of the U.S. production machine, was heard on millions of radio sets one night last week. Mobilizer Charles Wilson had gone on the air to make "my first report...
...last week, a sleek, black-and-grey light bomber took off from Alder-grove airbase in Northern Ireland and streaked westward, outrunning the thunder of its twin jets. Soaring to 41,000 ft., the R.A.F.'s Canberra raced the sun above it. Four hours and 40 minutes later, it skimmed down to Newfoundland's Gander field. The sun had made the swing in only 3½ hours. But the Canberra, averaging 445 m.p.h., had made the fastest Atlantic crossing ever, the hard way-30 minutes faster than a Mosquito bomber's five hours and ten minutes made...
Then Little David went on to describe what would happen if Jesus arrived at twelve o'clock that night. "The skies will break apart, thunder will crash, and the body of Christ will come rocketing down through the stratosphere, the atmosphere, and into the hemisphere!" The audience began to fidget nervously, an old man on my right looked up at the roof in horror, but the show was just beginning...