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Word: thunderous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...header, has impressed Shepard as being one of the best ball-handling teams in the East. The Eagles have a swift and shifty forward, Dick Fitzgerald, who prowled all over the court against St. Anselm's, intercepting passes and sparking an otherwise loose defense. BC plays a blood-and-thunder fast-break game, with flashy passing and tricky cuts at the basket...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Varsity Cagers Meet Fast Eagles in Garden Tonight | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

Adams will be the first House in the College to steal the Phillips Brooks House thunder and put on a Christmas party for the poor children of Cambridge, Alfred C. Parmelee '52 announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Joins PBH In Philanthropies For Local Gamins | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

...Western sector of Berlin on a summer morning of 1948, General Lucius Clay cast the die: "We will stay in this city." Clay's fighting faith mounted into the thunder of the airlift. And with their will, Berlin's people tipped the scales of decision; the Russians lifted the blockade when they realized that Berliners would not be intimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Shape of Nothingness | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...dark thunderstorm that had lowered over Washington all morning broke with a crash of thunder and a rattle of hail just as the President's statement was handed to White House reporters: "We have evidence that within recent weeks an atomic explosion occurred in the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Thunderclap | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...which it would have to live with the Russians' bomb as well as its own. For the first time, U.S. citizens would know, as much of the world had known since 1945, how it feels to live under the threat of sudden destruction-coming like a clap of thunder and a rattle of hail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Thunderclap | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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