Word: thunderingly
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...rest of the French nobility decidedly edgy. Even the old Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good, in whose court Louis occasionally sought refuge, was disconcerted. Duke Philip's idea of style was three dozen mistresses, regular tourneys and a room in his palace mechanically equipped to produce facsimile thunder, lightning and rain on demand. What Louis liked was plain food and a first-rate intelligence service...
This immediately ended the fight under the three-knockdown rule at 2:03 of the final round. The fight had been astonishingly close until Ali's sudden thunder brought it to a wild...
...informs Noah of the flood with monstrous banality. Bursts of thunder test the capacity of the amplification system, and huge projections of film stills on the back wall of the stage feature the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (creation), paintings of fleshy Renaissance nudes (corruption), and whirling Van Gogh suns (upheavals of nature). After that, the show lasts 40 days and 40 nights, with one 15-minute intermission...
...masterpiece of the book is an eight-page epic called "Thunder Under the Kalahari" or, Aliquid Novi ex Botswana? Prefaced by an item in the London Times about the discovery of truffles in the Kalahari desert and the possible resulting boost to the economy of Botswana (the former Bechuanaland), it's a tale of intrigue, adventure, and romance. Perelman is ensconced in the Mushmouth Arms, Bexhill-on-Sea, knowing that it is at this type of dreary seaside resort that one runs into an eccentric fellow guest who imparts some remarkable tale. Sure enough, he finds a strange...
...bombing of the CFIA prove to be such a non-event? Perhaps because it was more or less predicted by Neivsweek in an issue that hit the newsstands less than 24 hours before the bomb went off. Perhaps because bombings are about as extraordinary as thunder-storms these days. Perhaps because no one was killed...