Word: thunderously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squat little guns on either side of the quarter-deck sent TNT-laden depth charges hurtling into the dark sea. Then another burst, and another. The ship's stern bucked like a blooded stallion. From the sea came a lightning flash and muffled thunder, then the water fountained. The next and the next charges were deeper, making the sea boil and rumble...
...head. The man, in suit, shirt and tie of matching grey, was deeply tanned under his blond hair. Every eye in the chamber watched as they walked to their seats. Then, as one man, Congress and Supreme Court rose, saluted the Duke and Duchess of Windsor with a thunder of cheers...
...hump" to Africa's west coast, shuttle across equatorial Africa and follow the Nile from Khartoum to Cairo, thence to Saudi Arabia and Karachi. From Cairo they fan out into Trans-Jordan and on to Teheran. From Karachi they reach across India, climb over the Himalayas and thunder across the roof of the world into China...
...face of the A.P. thunder, until Professor Chafee spoke, neutral voices have been feeble and almost unheard. There have been a few articles, in small circulation publications like Harper's Magazine and The Nation. That...
Indisputable Nitwits. Some of the most ominous pages of Between the Thunder and the Sun describe the prewar scene at the Château de 1'Horizon, a villa near Antibes on the south coast of France. The chateau belonged to graciously aging U.S. Actress Maxine Elliott, aunt of Sheean's wife, Diana Forbes-Robertson. Like the society of which it is a symbol, the chateau perched precariously on a rock between the railroad tracks and the deep blue...