Word: thunderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American named Marlon Brando Cavalcanti and who worries about radioactive fallout, a Scotland Yard inspector named Overboard, and a Russian who stands on his head. And then there is an "ambassador from the audience" who sits onstage and asks for encores of certain attractive bits of business, notably the thunder sound effects...
...void-as far as 186 million miles away-in a 527 million-mile sun-circling orbit between the earth and Venus (see SCIENCE). And of all the machinery thrown into the heavens since the space age began only 29 months ago, Pioneer V alone has a voice that will thunder through history. On earth, scientists press buttons that ask questions, and Pioneer V will deliver the answers, from perhaps 50 million miles away...
Saying all this may seem very ill-advised, but we do it to steal the Innocent's thunder, so that others will not be misled...
...that $250,000 in silverware and jewels are inside the yacht's rotting hulk. After that he hopes to investigate a promising underwater copper deposit off Rossport. He also thinks he can make money retrieving pulpwood "worth at least $2,000,000" that lines the harbor bottom at Thunder Bay (about one pulpwood log in 20 sinks during rafting and water storage). And if none of these treasures pan out, Coghlan has a hole card. He can always hunt for the 24 more anchors known to be at the bottom of Port Arthur harbor, worth, he says, from...
...that Antonio Barrette takes over is not the same one Maurice Duplessis bequeathed. Where Duplessis endlessly battled Canada's federal government with the cry of provincial autonomy, Sauve had already restored reason to Quebec's relations with Ottawa. He had also stolen the Liberal opposition's thunder by launching overdue reforms that would help shore the party for an expected spring election. His unexpected death after just 114 days in office set the Union Nationale adrift with no obvious leader, raised doubts whether the party could survive a struggle for power, and whether Sauve's successors...