Word: thunderingly
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...night last week the womenfolk were giving her a wedding shower. All day long Aileen worried about what clothes to wear because of the contrary weather, which changed from rain to sultry heat to dusty winds; eventually, she decided on a summery nylon print dress. As the party began, thunder rumbled in the southwest, and a woman said uneasily that tornado warnings were out- clear to Texas...
...looked wonderful through the little eyeholes in its underbelly; the bar was open all the way from Newfoundland; and the woman next to me was stone-deaf so I spoke to her all the way, more wildly and more wildly as the plane lurched on through dark and lion-thunder and the firewater yelled through my blood like Sioux, and she unheard all my delirium with a smile; and then the Red Indians scalped me; and then it was London; and my iron will brought the bird down safely . . ." The Dying Light. Of himself Thomas once said: "I am first...
...Italian fashion with its separate, show-stopping arias. The voice parts, in their way, are likely to resemble instrumental parts, as they did in the golden age of Italian-style vocalism (up through the days of Handel). Modern composers find this kind of singing more expressive than the vocal thunder of a Celeste...
...technological Babylon that sometimes appears to tolerate them only because they inevitably turn out to be the men behind the men behind some new physical blessing. For no tangible reason at all, the men of Caltech have peered into the dawn of time, measured the invisible, eavesdropped on thunder over Jupiter. Their goal is not to produce, only to understand. "Really," says Astronomer Ira S. Bowen, who directs the jointly operated observatories, Caltech's Palomar and the Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson, "astronomy is the most useless of all sciences. Why are we astronomers? For the dickens...
...band struck up the National Anthem, and a salute was fired. "After the thunder of the salute," whispered Radio Moscow's announcer, "how quiet it is in Red Square...