Word: thunderously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy had a new PT (see cut), stouter and better armed than the "expendables" that made Navy legend in the Philippines and off Guadalcanal. But more important to PT Corner was the fact that big-ship men now recognized the thunder-throated little craft as something more than a nuisance to maintain...
Trips to the Mediterranean served only to reinforce Mencken's native temper. At the Vatican he inserted himself among the pilgrims and impudently kissed the apostolic ring of Pius X. Jerusalem he deplored for its "crude pottery of the thunder-mug species." The Holy Sepulcher he found obviously "bogus ... for unless Joseph of Arimathea was a reincarnation of Samson no one could imagine him rolling a stone large enough to close it." Mencken was full of sympathy for the British soldier who "spoke in favorable terms of the destruction of [Jerusalem] by the Romans in the year...
Keep your wonder at great and noble things like sunlight and thunder, the rain and the stars, the wind and the sea, the growth of trees and the return of harvests, and the greatness of heroes...
...Army predicted, it was above all the year of logistics. A few hours after Pearl Harbor the Santa Fe's Super Chief and the Union Pacific's City of Los Angeles were holed into sidings to let the first troop and munition trains thunder westward to the Coast. From then on the rails, which during 1940 and 1941 looked ripe for socialization to New Deal enthusiasts, turned in a record which made the socialization argument academic. Passenger-miles increased from 29 billion to 50 billion, or over 70%; freight ton-miles jumped from 475 to 630 billion...
...great insurance companies, which would lose much business by Sir William's proposals. But other potential opponents were small employers, who may find it hard to make the grade after paying their share of the contributions; the Labor Party, which sees the biggest part of its thunder stolen; trade unions, which subconsciously resented Beveridge since overall insurance would reduce members' reliance on the trade unions' benefits. Opposition was also expected from some sections of the medical profession ("the tightest trades union in the world"), which would fight nationalization of their services...