Word: thunderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...featured circus performers, an orchestra, fireworks, kosher hot dogs and a birthday cake on which live flamingos perched. The final straw came when the prince and princess renovated their house-once the staid Woolworth mansion-in dissonant contemporary style, including a discothèque and a device that simulates thunder. "It looks," a local arbiter says, "as if they just bought the entire lobby of the Ramada...
This has caused a rumbling thunder on the right. "We had only two seconds to enjoy Haig's firing," says Richard Viguerie, an archconservative political organizer. In fact, after Reagan's election, when it was thought that the choice for Secretary of State had come down to Haig and Shultz, Ultra-Conservative Brewer Joseph Coors and others mobilized a campaign for Haig, who was considered to be less of a "detentist...
...helicopters appeared like a horde of bloated locusts over the green fields and mountain streams. The jagged, snow-capped peaks of the Hindu Kush, the mountain chain that rings the valley, muted the roar of the bombing, making it sound like distant thunder...
Cooney possesses thunder in his left hand, but he has goose down in his right, and, most unhappily of all, he does not know how to defend himself. He was knocked sprawling in the second round and sent reeling in the sixth. With fairly good body punches, though not his absolute best, Cooney surely won the fourth round and maybe he took two or three others. But that was all. Scandalously, two Nevada state athletic commission judges had him leading at the end by rounds, six to five with one even, and behind on points only because Referee Mills Lane...
...seems in fact to be a conspiracy to drown out the voice. Some composers have turned from strings and woodwinds to ever louder brasses and electronic instruments. Even Ethel Merman, who has the strongest pipes in the business, might find it impossible to make herself heard over the electronic thunder of a musical like Evita...