Word: thunderings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Wall Street only a few late workers heard the rising thunder of engines and looked up. There was only a moment-a quick glimpse of scattered squares of light where charwomen worked while the low clouds swirled about the towers. Then the crash...
...blood and thunder saga o the career of Billy the Kid, who "in the brief span of twenty-one years sent twenty-one men to untimely graves," the musical manages to keep a plot together while the audience witnesses at least fifteen of the murders in addition to innumerable songs and dances. The music is good, though nothing for the Hit Parade. The cast and scenes are colorfully symbolic of New Mexico, the locale of the story...
...Thunder on the Right. Meanwhile from Iran, came an explanation of why the Iranian Government was playing up to Russia. Teheran needed Russia's support in domesticating Azerbaijan's Russian-inspired rebels. Trouble was brewing elsewhere in Iran. As the Red Army withdrew, rightist politicians and landowners, who consider Premier Ahmed Gavam's Government proSoviet, were going on the warpath. In Mazanderan, along the Caspian coast, armed bands were attacking left-wing peasants and workers. In Khorosan, fundamentalist Mohammedans were organizing to combat Communist influence by abolishing the reforms made a generation ago by Reza Shah Pahlevi...
Fairly modest about it, but willing to let others share his secrets, contemporary journalism's readiest confessor (earlier autobiographical volumes: Personal History, Not Peace but a Sword, Between the Thunder and the Sun) reports on what he has been up to during recent years. In the spring of 1942, at the age of 42, he joined the Army Air Forces. He rose from captain to lieutenant colonel...
...torrid heat made closing the doors unthinkable. Then nearby British artillery opened fire, presumably against Indonesian guerrillas. Sir Archibald, seasoned diplomat though he was, gave up, with a shrug of his shoulders. "I can't compete with this," said he. General Mansergh, not realizing that the thunderous obbligato was being played by his own guns, bellowed: "The Ambassador can't compete with the Almighty-rain and thunder...