Word: thunderings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give you promptly and in good time the decisions which are necessary. . . ." He promised to "attack restrictive practices of all kinds." What the British wanted to know was how he planned to do that. Even his best wishers could not pretend that Churchill had offered anything but highly generalized thunder...
...What the Thunder Said. Gromyko is a success. A U.N. diplomat calls him "one of Molotov's pet chickens." Russian newspapers nowadays report at length what and how Gromyko "thundered" in the Security Council (Grom means thunder in Russian). The papers used to print the thunderer's name in small 7-pt. type, but things changed after his first vetoes. By the eighth, his name had grown to 14-pt. headlines; then it went to 18-pt. and after the tenth to 27-pt. (which, for Russia, is the works). Nevertheless, the Russian press still does not run his picture...
...more parties-at the presidential palace, at the town hall, at the Foreign Office. And would Argentina's President Perón join his wife in Rio? Firmly the Brazilians said no. "He wouldn't be fool enough to try to steal some of Truman's thunder...
...Einem's orchestral onslaught on dictatorship. What was left unsaid by the orchestra was sung by the chorus, which Einem employed as Mussorgsky did in Boris Godunov, as the real protagonist of the drama. There were few arias, and most of them were drowned in the dissonant thunder from...
...know there's a big temptation when you get a little white space to become deafened by the thunder of your own thoughts. I've seen it happen to a lot of guys, and I'm not saying it can't happen to me. . . . Nineteen columns out of 20 I expect to be peddling that ever-lovin' popcorn and doing my old soft shoe dance. But every so often, when I feel like hollering, I'm going to stand up on my hind legs and holler. I'm not saying my palaverings rate...