Word: thundrous
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...Thundrous applause greeted Sylester "Rambo/Rocky" Stallone and his svelte fiance Brigitte Nielsen, both staunch Reagan supportors, it appears. Then came Don DeFore, and Esther Williams, and Juanita Booker, and Roy Rogers, and Chad Everett, and Ephraim "FBI" Zimbalist, and Fred MacMurray, and Charlton Heston...and the list goes on. Reagan's Ambassador to Mexico was there, too, but he was upstaged by his actress wife...
...Harvard in 1963," Wallace said. "I went out under the steam pipes, y'know. But the students there gave me a real good reception--it was some outside group that made trouble." I started to say something when he continued, "I filled the hall with thundrous applause, dija know that? That's what all the newspapers said, you go and look at them. I 'quickly converted an overwhelmingly hostile audience,' that's what they all said. You go look at them...
...coveted title role in Warner Bros.' Italian-filmed Helen of Troy, robustious Rosanna (who muffed her lines in 36 takes of a scene during Helen's early launching) was herself a thinly veiled suggestion of why the movie was converted from a simple love story into a thundrous spectacle...
...height three black-clad detectives entered, carrying a coffin. Perhaps the orchestra had been playing the German jazz hit of the year: Ich Küsse Deine Hand, Madame! ("I Kiss Your Hand, Madame!")*As one of the detectives clapped his black-gloved hands, the jazz snapped off into thundrous silence...
...listeners heard a rousing, but polished, reading of the First Movement, with its bold tossing about of thundrous rhythms, alternating with gentle, simple melodies, rising again and again in a seemingly endless succession of climaxes. Then came the swift, breathless scherzo (musical jest) ; then the long-drawn-out, meditative Slow Movement; finally, after fragments of what had gone before, the rich baritone voice of Mr. Royal Dadmun, chanted: "O friends, no more such sound of discord. Let us sing a strain more cheerful, now flowing, a strai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ain of gladness...
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