Word: thunderous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wiped his sweating neck and swigged a pint of beer. "A damnable piece of impertinence -Cripps at his blasted governessing again," said an industrialist, sipping his Pimm's No. 1 on the terrace of Pall Mall's Royal Automobile Club. In London last week there was thunder from both left and right when Britain's economic boss, Sir Stafford Cripps, announced that he had asked for American advice on how to increase British production...
...engine a single sparkplug buzzes. A spot of fire dances in a circle behind the turbine. Next moment, with a hollow whoom, a great yellow flame leaps out. It cuts back to a faint blue cone, a cone that roars like a giant blowtorch. The roar increases to thunder as the turbine gathers speed. Then it diminishes slightly, masked by a strange, high snarl that is felt rather than heard. This is "ultrasonic" sound (a frequency too high for the ear to hear). It tickles the deep brain, punches the heart, makes the viscera tremble. Few men like to stay...
...coming in the nose is compressed as if by the compressor of the turbojet. Fuel is burned near the point of highest compression. The energy added to the compressed air by combustion shoves a jet of hot, high-speed gas out the rear end with a noise like thunder. There is nothing inside a typical ramjet except fuel nozzles and a gridlike "flame-holder" to keep the flame from being blown out by the airstream...
Fallwell's classified "classic" stretched from Texas to Oregon, with bullfights, treacherous river-fordings, antelope hunts and climatic disturbances at every turn in the road-and the grammar was sometimes tired after the strenuous trip. Last week's installment ("The Terrible Rain Storm with Thunder & Lightning") had carried the author only up to the age of eleven. But Publisher Frank Schiro would have no objections if Autobiographer Fallwell outrecalled Thomas Wolfe...
...night the Republican convention opened. When she finished Liszt's bombastic Piano Concerto No. 1, the 5,000 people in the Dell cheered. The critics cheered too, but less noisily: Amparo had some of her brother's lightning in her fingers, but not enough of his thunder...