Word: thunderously
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...unrest mutated and spread in the following days. I watched truckloads of armed soldiers thunder through Mandalay's ill-lit streets. Some areas were placed under curfew; people said it had been more than a year since the city had been so tense. Then troops opened fire on a crowd of protesting monks, killing at least two and injuring many. From nearby towns came reports of more disturbances, news of which arrived in Mandalay on buses and trucks and spread with viral stealth through the city's network of trishaw drivers. Hiring one to check out the dark, deserted streets...
...hooves thunder on the horizon, HBO's Deadwood (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.; debuts March 21) might seem like the cavalry coming to rescue viewers affronted by Janet Jackson's Super Bowl flash. Something innocent! Something wholesome! A nice western...
Soriano, who will play at offensive guard for the Berlin Thunder, reported to training camp in Tampa, Fla., on Monday. Wide receiver Morris—holder of nine Harvard all-time receiving records, now a member of the Miami Dolphins—will play for the expansion Cologne Centurians, and was already in Tampa for passing camp. The players will spend approximately three weeks training before heading overseas for sightseeing, revelry, and, oh yeah, football...
...Tuesday found us back at the Magic Kingdom, where six-year-old Caroline continued the roller-coaster progress she had begun on Sunday. This second round of sessions would see her and cousin Evie riding ?Big Thunder Mountain Railway? no fewer than three times, the third by themselves with hands raised the whole way. Caroline would not try ?Splash Mountain? again after the harrowing experience two days earlier, but did say, ?Maybe next year when I?m seven.? Which seems to indicate we?re coming back to Disney next year. My skis seem headed for the annual spring tag sale...
...Luci?s sister, Marie, and Christopher joined us in Frontierland at the established afternoon hour. Christopher could not be coaxed aboard the final go-round on ?Big Thunder,? as he had just had the stuffing knocked out of him by ?Space Mountain.? After that third trip, Caroline and Evie could only be pried away with promises of more ?Thunder? on Wednesday...