Word: thunderously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smoke curled out of the cockpit. A tongue of flame followed, then crept back along the top of the fuselage. The plane began to collapse with a series of small reports. Finally, the tail section keeled down, and half an hour after touchdown, three big explosions, like distant summer thunder, sent up a mushroom pall of black smoke as debris and sparks sprayed an area a kilometer across. All that remained this morning was the tail assembly and a motor...
DURING THE MIDDLE of the Band's set, there was a heavy summer thunder and lightning shower. The pianist got drenched, but after the tech crew put plastic sheets over all the electronic equipment, the Band played on. During one of their heavy rocker numbers, a skydiver plummetted. It seemed that his parachute opened a little early, and he drifted over the field. He seemed to be whirling curiously around on his straps, and he landed over a clump of trees behind the stage. Later, three skydivers jumped amidst the lightning with three red flares held in their hands...
This summer, as in summers before, large numbers of Summer School students will reside in the Yard. But this summer, Yard residents will delight to the thunder of wrecking expeditions, and the Yard that bore grass for Commencement--one of the only such green spots on the Harvard campus--will transform itself into a less pleasing mud and dust landscape...
...stock devices of werewolves and vampires for a more intimate horror. In stories like Arthur Jermyn and Rats in the Walls, he exploited the rich theme of contaminated blood as it percolates implacably through successive generations. In The Lurking Fear, an entire upstate New York clan degenerates into thunder-crazed, shocking creatures with the hideous habits of man-eating moles...
There are a number of fleeting images of Reich, quite different from the popular notion of the sexual liberator and the bold Promethean who stole knowledge from the gods. "My father was terrified of thunder and lightning," Peter writes. "He was afraid that the thunder was directed at him, for understanding it, for being able to play with it." Elsewhere he describes Reich stepping from the shower in dripping underpants and adds that "he never went naked...