Word: thunderers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Party leaders were so depressed by the results that they said South Africans had opted for a "one-party state." Their reaction, however, may have been at least partly inspired by the embarrassment they suffered at the hands of both the bold Progressives, who stole the opposition's thunder, and Vorster, who showed unseemly scorn for their party on election day. Happening upon the Prime Minister at a polling booth, Vorster's United Party opponent, Elias Olivier, approached him with a greeting. In response, the jut-jawed apostle of kragdadigheid jeered: "Go play marbles, young...
...Senate in 1945 by Family Friend Governor Earl Warren after the death of Hiram W. Johnson. As majority floor leader from 1953 to 1955 and minority leader through 1958, Knowland advocated a hard line on Asian Communism and opposed the entry of Red China into the U.N. A stubborn, thunder-voiced politician, he decided to improve his presidential chances by running for the California governorship in 1958. After losing to Pat Brown, he became editor and later publisher of the conservative, family-owned Oakland Tribune...
...purists frown on them, complaining that their racket scares the fish away. Another factor in the growth of ice-fishing has been the development of thermal-layer underwear, which enables the shanty anglers to go calling on their neighbors in comfort. Many anglers bring along outhouses, furnished with "thunder mugs"-pots with disposable plastic liners. Even fishing is largely automated, thanks to the tip-up, a device that raises a red flag or sounds a buzzer when a fish bites. One Midwestern fisherman has trained a dog to rally round the flag and bark whenever it goes up, thus allowing...
Jean-Luc and I got him washed and into bed. When the thunder broke he began to shake with terror and glee. The war, his father, the people on the beach, bombs, planes and lightning were all the same to him for that moment. When the storm finally subsided he went to sleep. He cried out once or twice in the night, but did not awaken...
...eight engines mounted on the stubby forward wing is aimed to hit the water and bounce back up under the main wing to create a lifting bubble of air similar to that on which Hovercraft ride. When fully developed in the late '70s, the creation is expected to thunder along at speeds up to 350 m.p.h. while flying only 25 to 50 feet above the water-low enough to make radar detection difficult. What is more, the huge aircraft could make two-to three-day voyages extending as far as 7,000 miles...