27 April 2016

thunderation

[thuhn-duh-rey-shuh n]

interjection

1. an exclamation of surprise or petulance.

Origin of thunderation

1830-1840, Americanism; thunder + -ation

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Examples from the Web for thunderation

Historical Examples

Why, thunderation, you might as well be a day scholar for all the school life you get!
Center Rush Rowland
Ralph Henry Barbour

This is a thunderation nice kind of a night to have a celebration on!
The Skipper and the Skipped
Holman Day

Why in thunderation did I ever leave the office without my portable instrument?
The Young Wireless Operator–As a Fire Patrol
Lewis E. Theiss

Anagram

anointed hurt
rationed hunt
attuned rhino

Today’s quote

Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.

– Ozzy Osbourne

On this day

27 April 1904 – The Australian Labor Party wins the federal election, making Chris Watson Australia’s third prime minister. The ALP was the first such labour party in the world to win a national election.

27 April 1950 – apartheid formally commences in South Africa with the implementation of the Group Areas Act that segrated races.

27 April 1951 – birth of Paul Daniel ‘Ace’ Frehley, former lead guitarist with Kiss. Frehley’s character with the band was the ‘Spaceman’. He has since launched a solo career and formed a band called Frehley’s Comet.

27 April 1953 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Executive Order 10450 ‘Hiring and Firing Rules for Government Employment’. The order declared homosexuality, communism and moral perversion to be national security threats and grounds for sacking a government employee or not hiring an applicant.

27 April 1994 – South Africa’s first democratic election in which citizens of all races could vote. The interim constitution is enacted. The African National Congress won the election with 62% of the vote, bringing Nelson Mandela to power. 27 April is celebrated as Freedom Day in South Africa.