Word: thunderstormed
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Except for one thunderstorm, this movie hasn't much lightning to offer, nor much action either. The supporting cast almost saves "Lightning Strikes Twice" from being a complete catastrophe, but it still isn't worth 60 cents...
...through their training, the cadets had been taught that one goes around a thunderstorm, or one turns around-but he never, never attempts to go through it. With a choice of flying through thunderstorms to certain death, or of facing the wrath of the horny-headed, fork-tailed Hardin, most of the pilots chose the certain death as the easier...
...nuclei are present, snowflakes form on them at a comparatively low level. This condensation releases heat, which makes the air rise faster. The resulting turbulence tears the snowflakes apart. The fragments grow into larger flakes, releasing still more heat. The meteorological "chain reaction" turns the cloud into a violent thunderstorm that dashes torrents of rain on the ground below...
...Ford has used what is probably a record amount of experience to fill this movie with fine, familiar technicolor scenes. His cavalry troop, its shiny horses steaming in the cold, jogs out on morning patrol; it moves patiently along a ridge against the jostling clouds of a thunderstorm. It deploys behind its red-and-gold guidon for a charge, plays taps when it buries its dead, and sings a lot of good cavalry songs. Ford's officers sit straight in the saddle, and their gold fore-and-aft shoulder bars gleam in the sun. His two lieutenants (one a wealthy...
...dark thunderstorm that had lowered over Washington all morning broke with a crash of thunder and a rattle of hail just as the President's statement was handed to White House reporters: "We have evidence that within recent weeks an atomic explosion occurred in the U.S.S.R...