Word: thunderingly
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...depended on Phil Murray's steelworkers. They had been tied up in negotiations since January, had extended the deadline once-until April 30. Now time was running out. Both Murray and Reuther were obviously piqued that management had stolen their thunder by dealing first with the Red-wired electrical workers. But the Big Three meeting broke up with no word of results. Walter Reuther went back to Detroit, still breathing intransigence...
...swept into his unpaid office in 1941 on a clean-out-the-Reds ticket. During the war, when few unions changed their leadership, there were only muffled rumblings of dissent, chiefly from left-wingers. But this year, with Murray coming up for renomination or rejection in June, volley and thunder have come at him from right as well as left...
...Muffled Thunder. Today La Prensa is not the paper it used to be. In the face of Peron, it has muffled its thunder. Its voice has become more & more the voice of the oldtime Jockey Club oligarchy, an echo of the dead past in the very much alive present...
...which do enormous damage to crops in certain parts of the country. Hail is formed when raindrops are sucked into rising currents in a thundercloud. They freeze high in the air, collide with supercooled water droplets, and grow into crop-slashing hailstones. Dr. Irving Langmuir proposes to charge the thunder-threatening air with silver iodide particles. Sucked up into the cloud, they will turn the supercooled droplets into snow before they can build up hailstones...
...coated breakwater near Northwestern University's campus at Evanston, Student Dwight Cook watched the 20-foot waves pound in from Lake Michigan. Suddenly, one licked him out of sight. In Chicago, the blizzard sent pedestrians sprawling, snapped power lines, broke windows and stopped traffic. Thunder hammered across a sky that flashed red, purple and orange. For good measure, the dust from Texas arrived to turn the snow yellow and brown, and started Chicagoans searching their Bibles...