Word: thunderous
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...Greensboro, N. C. Robinson R. Stabler, glowing with international goodwill, proposed that New York Harbor's Goddess of Liberty be equipped with loudspeaker and polylingual set of records, thunder appropriate greetings and farewells at passing ships...
...baby disappeared Grammy was sure she had kidnapped and killed it. He looked for her, found her, was caught in a red-handed murder. It took a military tribunal and a firing squad to set Grammy really free. "He heard a rumble and roar, like a thousand peals of thunder, and he landed squarely in the middle of Free Heaven, right on the lap of the Sweet God A'mighty King Jesus...
...Kilbourne. The latter, a 26-year-old graduate West Pointer on leave from the Army, spells his name Johnston. His father dropped the "t" years ago. As an investigator in NRA's legal department Son Kilbourne dashes around with his father's zip but not his thunder...
...blinding darkness all around. Rain washed the wide expanse of windows intermittently and the wind in the chimneys moaned and shrilled like some dying titan. It was a fit night for ghoulish purposes, unthinkable horrors that drive the possessor slowly mad. In the cavernous vault the noise of thunder rolled and broke with the insistence of throbbing tom-toms. Somewhere out over the plain of roofs gleaming with water and the trees that tossed their branches in a spasm of agony as if to relieve some obsessing pain, a bell tolled the hour like a bad omen...
...Wasp-powered Bellanca, and extraordinary plans. Single-handed he would fly from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. to "some point in Asia," breaking by 1,000 mi. the 5,126 mi. non-stop distance record held by Great Britain. Shrewdly, he timed his flight to steal some of the thunder of Italo Balbo's squadron flight to the U. S. next month. He got big headlines by describing his unusual preparations for the ordeal of flying solo two days and a half...