Word: thunderstruck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musical, Fiorello (TIME, Dec. 7), Actor Tom Bosley appears before Broadway audiences for the first time and gives them what they thought they had seen for the last time: the fire, drive and percussion of New York's Little Flower. "I was thunderstruck by the similarity," said Morris. Bosley reads the funnies with a perfect croak, pushes back his coat to place his hands, fingers down, on his hips while speaking, sings in a voice like the one that must have sounded in the shower at Gracie Mansion. He makes the most of his pudgy hands and Little Flower...
...relentless but gripping tragedy of man's inhumanity to man. The scene is New Hope Valley, Tenn.; the time, today. An evangelist arrives in town with the intention of saving a passel of souls. Town elders go into the woods to find a suitable baptismal stream, are suddenly thunderstruck to see Susannah bathing in the altogether. This vision is enough to convince them that the girl is possessed of the devil, and that it is everybody's duty to cleanse...
...planes thunder in the sky, two owls sit thunderstruck upon a tree, looking like two elderly British industrialists who have just been informed of Aneurin Bevan's election to their club...
...thunderstruck local Communists let him finish. It was a month before the police came to arrest him. Since then, nothing has been heard of Father Tung...
...never heard of a reporter having; he supposed that things were different on magazines. He was amazed when she handed him the office weekly payroll to sign, and the fine print of the "Goings On" department to check and okay. He asked her why, and her answer left him thunderstruck. "Because you're the managing editor," she said...