Word: thunderous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ahidjo, 33, who had served as Vice Premier and Interior Minister in M'bida's government. Ahidjo announced his policy: independence (but without a timetable), union of the British and French Cameroons, cooperation with France on a basis of equality and confidence-a program that should steal thunder from the supporters of Moscow and Cairo. Ahidjo also is expected to try to lure the rebels out of the jungle with the promise that they will suffer no punishment if they surrender-the kind of offer M'bida had refused to make...
...wholly unrewarding hour' is what you guys would say," Patchen would observe, and probably rightly. He doesn't have much use for academic pedantry, probably rightly, and Chino criticism from undergraduates is strictly small noise in the presence of his immense thunder...
Patchen's thunder roars at the cities ("black toads"), conformity ("Let us have madness openly"), war ("Democracy must be saved at all costs," he sneers), American art ("The arts of this American land/Stink in the air of mountains"), and indifference ("It is ordered now/That you push your beliefs/Up out of the filth high enough/For the inchworm to get their measure...
Democrats' Loss. As FPC replaced the Administration as the center of Northwest controversy, the beneficiary was Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, who has modified the policies of his predecessor, Douglas McKay, and quietly stolen some thunder from Northwest Democrats. Last week all eyes turned to Seaton's suggestion for a $274 million multipurpose dam at Pleasant Valley instead of at Nez Perce. FPC and many powermen have opposed it because it would be above the Salmon and Imnaha Rivers, thus store much less water than Nez Perce. It would also flood out the lowest Hells Canyon dam that Idaho...
...dollar goes farther, and perhaps even some where it goes faster. But at the race track a man can get his money's worth. Tourist trimming stops at the gate. Whatever the weather, there is the bright sight of the silks rounding the turn and the convert-making thunder of thoroughbreds in a charge for the finish. There is also the base and altogether beautiful possibility of swift financial gain. A few hours spent studying past performances, a few dollars wagered wisely are said by some amateur gerontologists to be as healthful as fresh air and sunshine...