Word: thunderous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thunder. The trouble began last spring when players, brooding over past grievances, organized a union; some felt underpaid, all were exasperated by the rules which allow clubs to sell or trade players at will. Wealthy clubs had taken to buying up promising hooters, not to play but to sit idle on the bench. A fortnight ago, the players put on a token strike. At exactly 3:45 p.m., in every stadium in Argentina, all players abruptly stood stock-still for one minute, then went on with the game...
Then Harry Truman rode in glory through the thunder of applause to the White House.* From the north portico, he told the cheering crowd: "It is overwhelming. It makes a man study and wonder whether he is worthy of the confidence, worthy of the responsibility which has been thrust upon...
...last year's Crimson team was sick, mentally as well as physically. This fall, morale is high. During one Saturday's game scrimmage in the Stadium, for instance, the squad continued to slug it out despite a freak baby hurricane which roared onto the field with a burst of thunder, lightning, and rain and threatened to collapse the concrete colonnades...
...last year's Crimson team was sick, mentally as well as physically. This fall, morale is high. During last Saturday's game scrimmage in the Stadium, for instance, the squad continued to slug it out despite a freak baby hurricane which roared onto the field with a burst of thunder, lightning, and rain and threatened to collapse the concrete colonnades...
...hundred years and more, a tinto has sold for 5 centavos. Last week inflation-harried café owners asked the price control board to raise the ceiling price to 10 centavos (6?). From Colombians who had shrugged off other price boosts rose a thunder of protest that boomed across the misty Bogota savannah to echo in subtropical Cali and industrial Medellin...