Word: thunders
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...Politician. As the Republicans' running mate for Alfred Landon in 1936, Frank Knox exhibited all his strength, and all his weaknesses. He knew from the start that his ticket was licked, but never admitted it. He set off on a 22,000-mile campaign tour full of thunder and adrenalin, never stopped castigating the New Deal, never lowered his voice below a victorious shout...
Tension rose in Cairo. Men told each other: Something has got to break. It was like thunder from the desert, an intangible but ever-growing certainty that a blow was about to fall somewhere around the Mediterranean...
...fashioned melodrama with a trowel fall pretty flat. They use restraint where hamming is called for; and they don't even give the villain-hissing audience a fighting chance to display its wares. A livelier paced direction, with more emphasis on the exists and entrances that give blood-and-thunder its special quality would have helped immeasurably...
General Yount's fledgling pilots had to learn that a cumulonimbus cloud should be regarded as a red traffic light of the air lanes, because it means rough air thunder storms, sometimes hail. But even after they memorized cloud forms until they could recite them in their sleep, they could not learn a proper respect for weather until they stuck their noses into trouble. That took time...
...shame and it's a accident," said the Blot, stumbling down the circular staircase, to the accompaniment of peals of thunder. It was getting darker now. In fact, it was getting so dark you would have thought it was last Wednesday night. Which it was, strangely enough...