Word: thunderous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brunette Elizabeth Taylor (Amy) in a blonde wig, Janet Leigh (Meg), and Margaret O'Brien (Beth). Though the faces have changed, the girlish flutter and flummery are still the same. Curled up in her cluttered Concord attic, tousle-headed Jo still writes, and weeps over her blood & thunder fiction. The romantic Meg still falls romantically in love, marries and has twins. Featherbrained Amy, as self-centered as ever and still suffering from the "degradations" of well-bred poverty, succeeds in catching wealthy Laurie (Peter Lawford). Little Beth once more wastes away, bravely and wistfully, to an early death...
...Thunder on the Left. As the rumpus spread, the protests grew louder. The Young Progressives made most of the noise. Meanwhile, President Strand's stand got support from some members of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors; the president, they said, was entirely within his rights. Spitzer and La Vallee countered by declaring that they would appeal to the A.A.U.P.: they insisted that they were being fired for their Progressive activities. Finally, Strand's patience snapped...
Turning to the organist, Composer Bloch directed him to thunder the final anthem theme, while the audience listened. Then he had the audience sing his words through twice-first sitting down, then standing...
Momentarily, Coaltown had stolen the thunder of his famed stablemate, Citation, who was in his stall convalescing from an ankle ailment. But one man, shrewd Ben Jones, insisted that Coaltown still belonged in Citation's shadow. Said Trainer Ben, who knows all there is to know about both horses: "Citation would have whipped him if he had been in there . . . Citation can catch any horse...
...eyes do not flash through clouds of incense or from altar candles . . . This new god is not a stone statue worn smooth by the kisses of the faithful-he was not born in heaven . . . The new god is born from earth and blood-he strides ahead, and under the thunder of his steps the globe trembles from East to West. This is the red god. The Seine shudders at his impact, and tries to break its banks. Westminster trembles before him like Jericho, and across the green ocean his red shadow falls on the walls of the White House. Hosanna...