Word: thunderers
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...Shreveport, La.: A powerful 10-1 McNeese State squares off against Southern Mississippi (8-3). Few parts of the country take their football more seriously than Looziana, as the natives pronounce it. McNeese State is one of the schools that has sprung up in the state to steal the thunder of traditional force LSU. Powered by a partisan crowd and rushing offense that racked up nearly 300 yards a game, McNeese State should roll...
Lashed by hot, howling desert winds, they are such a seasonal feature in Southern California that fire officials give them names, like hurricanes. This week "Thunder," "Indian Truck," "Lakeland" and five other brushfires consumed 84,000 acres of hillsides and canyons in the region. Only a week earlier, 63,000 acres near Los Angeles had been blackened...
...record of individuals involved in the Rightist movement, according to conservative journalist Alan Crawford in his book Thunder on the Right, is not sparkling clean. Crawford's book reports that Roger Stone (later to become National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC) treasurer, as well as Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chairman), while employed in the office of Herbert L. Porter at the Committee to Re-Elect the President in 1972, was involved in a "dirty tricks" campaign. A White House aide assigned Stone to make a donation to California Congressman Pete McCloskey, then a presidential primary candidate, "on behalf...
Some political professionals believe that the New Right is the fourth most powerful organized political force in America, behind the two major political parties and organized labor; in the past two years, according to Thunder on the Right, the financial earnings of the New Right have surpassed those of organized labor...
...listen to 8,500 guns, a sound that no human ear had ever heard before? For Winston Churchill, who visited France to see the war firsthand, the crescendo rose "exactly as a pianist runs his hands across the keyboard from treble to bass." For Private Frank Gray the thunder was "one roll, one roar, which never diminished and never increased, and which, indeed, imagination refused to conceive could be increased." After listening to a similar barrage, a U.S. Marine exulted: "I never want to have a grander feeling or I'd just naturally...