Word: thunders
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...lost sleep, protested, continued to lose sleep. One evening he came home from work, tired and late. He ate his black beans and went to bed. Soon Ricardina started the service. In a turban and bright red robes, she screamed incantations before the "pegi" (altar) to "Xango" (God of Thunder). The holy uproar swelled. At the climax, Oswaldo Candido da Silva, the "Pae de Santo" (High Priest) beheaded a squawking chicken.* The congregation made suitable noises...
...Thunder in the Air. Beyond the tonic news of victories at sea, of burning Berlin, of the advancing Red Army, of U.S. advance in the Pacific, there is much to be read and sensed at home: signs and portents, growing tension, expectancy, an air of great events to come. In the streets, in offices, in pubs, the pace is quicker. Uniforms of all nations throng London streets. Young, tough, confident boys are on leave; a great many of them are Americans whose shoulder patches show that they have but one destination...
Again Russian hamlets set afire by alien hands glowed in the bluish dusk, and misshapen figures dangled from the gallows. Again the thunder of Red artillery pursued the fleeing men through day & night, and white-painted Stormoviks hopped over the gaunt trees to bomb and strafe...
...somebody bungled the revolution), invented eraser-tipped pencils, postage stamps with perforated seams, retractable carriage steps. After building the first streetcar lines between Liverpool and Birkenhead, Train circled the globe in 80 days (said Train of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days: "He stole my thunder. I'm Phileas Fogg"). During the Paris Commune, Train wrapped himself in French and American flags, screamed at a firing squad: "Fire, fire, you miserable cowards." He lived to be buried in Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery, leaving to science the 27th heaviest brain on record...
...picks up an English medical officer, a Fighting Frenchman, a Negro veteran of at least a dozen wars and insurrections, an Italian soldier, a German officer, and others too numerous to mention, including, eventually about a gross of assorted Nazi prisoners. The process obviously involves plenty of blood and thunder, and the picture works itself up to a well-planned climax, leaving everyone satisfied...