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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...
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...
...ended with a mid-air explosion. But since then, it has carried four satellites, two per launch, into high earth orbit. The most recent lift-off came in the predawn darkness on Dec. 20, when Ariane awoke the sleeping jungle with a fusillade of flame and thunder. Last week, in Paris, the eleven-nation European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed what Ariane's customers had been eagerly waiting to hear: that the rocket was ready and able to launch satellites for any and all customers, including some who had already booked space on the U.S. shuttle...
...lightly whirled the count, flying round Marya Dmitrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling and making a wide sweep with his arm amid a thunder of applause and laughter led by Natasha. Both partners stood still, breathing heavily and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs...