Word: thunderings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great thunder I'm shot! I'm wounded! ...I'm sorry. They were testing the starting gun. Sneaky little beggars, these outing club boys. So hairy...
...Maritime Province and captured Vladivostok. Chiang Kai-shek drafted Bluecher as military adviser to China, where he helped organize the famed Whampoa Academy. Shortly thereafter Chiang broke with the Communists and took over Whampoa; Bluecher became Russia's top general in the Far East. "If war bursts like thunder in the Far East," he once said, "we will answer the attack with such a blow that the foundations of capitalism will quiver and crumble." Bluecher's voice was too loud for Stalin. Recalled to Moscow, he was named one of eight judges in the court-martial of Tukhachevsky...
...silver. Its effectiveness is enchanced by Margaret Fairbank's lighting. Pringle Hart's costumes and Penny Sutherland's choreography are simple but tasteful. Stephen Addiss has composed modern musical backgrounds for the odes and lyrics that are fitting but a little too loud. Timpani rolls substitute adequately for the thunder-machine (bronteion) of the ancients...
Remembered Nightmare. NBC took an hour-long look at the recent past with The Twisted Cross, a filmed record of Hitler's rise and fall. Except for the very young, the show had all the horror of a recalled nightmare: the massed banners and goose-stepping thunder of helmeted battalions, the full-throated Sieg Heils of ecstatic crowds. The film, as a whole, was not illumined by any unifying idea, but it had value as a dread remembrance of things past...
...Eden's disjointed, defensive speech he made the mistake of calling Gait-skell's criticism of the Baghdad Pact "a milder echo of the Moscow radio," and had to take his words back. Having risen to Tory cheers, he sat down to a Labor thunder of "Resign! resign!" Gaitskell, shouting at the top of his lungs to be heard, cried: "In view of the totally unsatisfactory nature of the Prime Minister's reply, we shall divide the House...