Word: thunderingly
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...softened Big and Little Nori with bombs, rockets and napalm that whooshed up in hideous, billowing, orange-and-black globes. The U.N. artillery put in VT (variable-time-fused) shells for airbursts which the gunners hoped would send sharp fragments flying into the enemy ratholes. One clear morning, after Thunder jets and artillery had given the hill a final treatment, the ROKs attacked again, in single and double file, scrambling up a slope covered several inches thick with the dust of battle, kicking up such clouds that they could scarcely see one another...
...force. Capable of 700 m.p.h., the new Thunderstreak is powered by Britain's Sapphire engine, made in the U.S. by Curtiss-Wright (TIME, Oct. 16, 1950). It can carry a small atom bomb, has a range of more than 2,000 miles (considerably more than the current Thunder jet), and can be refueled in flight for still greater distances...
Last week, in a ceremony which by tradition includes an honor guard of silk-uniformed soldiers, each carrying two swords and a shield of buffalo hide, Sir Jigme's 24-year-old son, Jigme Dorji, was installed as the third Gyalpo of Thunder-dragon. Two visitors-the eldest son of the Maharaja of neighboring Sikkim and an Indian political agent-were invited over the mountains to see the show. They were the only outsiders present...
...Modern Art, still another kind of composition for tape recorder was unwound: Low Speed, Invention and Fantasy in Space by Otto Luening and Sonic Contours by Vladimir Ussachevsky. Out of the loudspeaker came the sound of a flute-but a flute that could growl like a bassoon, or thunder like the trump of doom, as well as chirp like a bird-and the sound of a piano that seemed to accompany itself with organ tones. Haunting both instruments was a maze of echoes and pulsing overtones...
Birth of a Nation is a movie with a cloud over its head. Whenever anyone has tried to show it, an ominous thunder has been heard from those who, in the name of tolerance, will not tolerate its exhibition...