Word: thunderstruck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks later, three of the Castro children, one of the Zavala children and then Panfilo Castro himself died in convulsions. The village of Platanito, in the state of Sinaloa, was thunderstruck...
Commissioner McCloy, said aides, was "thunderstruck" and "confounded" by the reprieve. Still in the basement death row of Landsberg prison, the seven would now wait for the federal courts to rule on whether Attorney Magee's argument had merit, a procedure which could take months. But Frau Schmidt, relieved of her death watch in a Landsberg hotel, remarked: "Now we must immediately cancel the coffin and the hearse...
...weeks later, General MacArthur was facing the Japanese surrender delegation (including Author Kase) on the Missouri. His speech calling for a world dedicated to "freedom, tolerance and justice" left Kase "thrilled beyond words, spellbound, thunderstruck. For the living heroes and dead martyrs of the war this speech was a wreath of undying flowers...
...gang," says Father Baudry, "was thunderstruck. Lulu told me she took back nothing she had said about priests, but since we were already friends, my presence would be tolerated." In time it came to be eagerly welcomed. Lulu even took to calling him "Begonia" and "my little zebra." In Lulu's he returns kidding for kidding, buys his share of drinks like anyone else, and offers advice or joins serious discussions only when others take the initiative. "There's no question of converting these people except in rare cases," says Father Baudry. "If I tried to do that...