Word: thunderstruck
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...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...
...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...