Word: thunderers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Petty, wearing a gold fireproof jumpsuit, wriggles through the glassless window in the driver's door, which, for safety reasons, is welded shut. At 2 p.m. the starter says, "Gentlemen, start your engines." The 30 drivers rev up their 500-h.p.-plus monsters, creating a thunder that pierces the cotton stuffed in drivers' ears. After two laps, the pace car pulls away, the flag is dropped and the race...
Last Tuesday's official opener with Boston College was rained out, and there is a possibility of thunder-showers this afternoon. It will at least be warm, however, as temperatures are expected to reach...
...Soviet capital that the cosmonauts will live and work aboard Salyut 2 until May Day, one of the biggest political holidays of the year and a time when the Soviet leadership likes to show off its accomplishments. If the mission is successful, the Russians may well steal the thunder from a U.S. space spectacular: the mid-May launch of Skylab, aboard which three astronauts are scheduled to live for 28 days...
...Over 1000 Indians gathered at Gordon, Neb., in March 1972 to protest the death of Raymond Yellow Thunder. Yellow Thunder, a resident of the Pine Ridge reservation, was found dead in Gordon on February 20. The autopsy showed Yellow Thunder died of a cerebral hemorrhage, but AIM requested, and obtained, a Federal grand jury to investigate the death. Reliable reports said a few white youths had harrassed Yellow Thunder, forced him to dance in front of others, and threw him out in the cold. This incident occurred a week before he was found dead...
Wilson, a stocky mixed-blood with close cropped hair, was familiar with AIM's tactics. In March 1972, AIM and 2000 supporters gathered in Gordon, Neb., to protest the violent death of Raymond Yellow Thunder. A splinter group headed to Wounded Knee, determined to use the historic site for a symbolic demonstration...