Word: thunderous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nicole Henriot is a slender girl of 23 who does not look as if she could hit a piano keyboard very hard. But she can: there is enough thunder in her piano-playing to have been heard all over Paris. Last week, when Nicole made her U.S. debut in Carnegie Hall, some Manhattan critics found her performance of Schumann's Concerto in A Minor too cold and brittle for their taste. But most of them were sure of one thing: in the small field of women concert pianists, she was the brightest newcomer of the year. "Here," wrote...
Nicole found her thunder when she was only eight. Her father, a Parisian engineer, had hoped she would become a painter and her sister a pianist. For hours, the two little girls struggled wretchedly over their lessons. One day, when their parents were out, they decided to switch. Nicole sat down at the piano and just started to play. She first played in public before she was ten, has been playing ever since...
...Thunder-Stroock. "We're thunder-stroock but not conscience-stroock," punned Gimbels in a frozen-smile ad. The Manhattan department store had sold scores of coats which it had advertised as being 60% Stroock cashmere, then discovered that some of them were 59% camel's hair with counterfeit "Stroock" labels. With embarrassed apologies to its customers and Stroock ("We hope it won't happen again"), Gimbels offered to take them back...
...dawn comes up like thunder...
...debate, no quarter was asked or given. From the Assembly rostrum, Soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky counterattacked with a 92-minute diatribe; the Soviet-controlled press rolled out its thunder of slander. The violence of their reaction attested to the effectiveness of Marshall's blow. Three months later, in the cream-and-gold salon of Lancaster House in London, the Secretary delivered the coup de gráce to the last false postwar hopes. Barely suppressing his anger through Molotov's interminable dialectics, he finally, impatiently, called for an adjournment. A campaign had ended...