Word: thunderings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...seph Pétain thought of "those who have been fighting, true to their old military tradition, against an enemy of huge numerical superiority; ... of those old combatants whom I commanded during the last war; ... of the men and women on the roads, driven away from their homes." Amid thunder's boom and the crackle of lightning that made radios rasp, Frenchmen heard him ask for peace...
...last, when the cutting-room floor was knee deep in yards of discarded inspiration, Warner Brothers were ready to expose their biggest picture of 1940 to autopsical critics and a public stunned into advance reverence by the thunder of advance publicity...
They cared-and would continue to. no matter how faint their voices in the thunder of war. So did the U. S. care-under certain circumstances. The country waited to see whether or not the G. 0. P. would nominate a man who could be the nation's leader. The Party's problem was to pick such a man, or resign the nation's leadership to Franklin Roosevelt...
...blinding barrage smoke, young German soldiers advanced clutching each other's belts. They were mowed down in solid platoons. But the shouted war song of wave after wave of those still to come drowned out the dying screams of those ahead. Over this human pandemonium roared the steady thunder of German artillery blasting the infantry's way, French artillery replying with sheets of screaming metal to stop the endless horde, and roaring swarms of airplanes from both sides diving and darting over the battle...
...struggle was protracted and fierce. Suddenly the scene has cleared. The crash and thunder has momentarily, but only for the moment, died away. The miracle of deliverance achieved by the valor and perseverance, perfect discipline, faultless service, skill and unconquerable vitality is a manifesto...