Word: kerplopped
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...Coleman eventually had his way, and so did Kennedy, and so did Gordon Smith of Oregon, who wanted $14 billion restored to Medicaid, and so did Jim Bunning of Kentucky, who-soaring into the wild blue yonder-wanted $64 billion more in tax cuts. And so, kerplop. The Bush budget sank of its own cynical inelegance. Which leaves us with a legislative mess, the same mess as last year's, when the House and Senate couldn't agree on a budget. Only it's worse this time, because if the two houses can't reconcile themselves, a host of beloved...
...thought I might be having a bad week. First, a friend of mine who works in the telecommunications industry told me the Internet is going to go kerplop one of these days. Because it was never intended for the sort of use it's getting, he said, it isn't designed to be sufficiently "robust...
Compared to elephant hunting in the jungles of Mysore or bullfighting in Toledo, it should have been child's play. Confidently the vacationing Shah of Iran, 45, stepped up to the line in a Cambridgeshire pub and lofted three darts at the board. Kerplop, kerplop, two flew wide and dropped to the floor. Setting aside her 'arf pint, Queen Farah Diba, 26, demurely followed her husband to the line. There was a gleam in the lady's eye. Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! She neatly ringed the bull's-eye. Farah pooh-poohed it all, but a bricklayer...
...never boring. Some of the skirmishes that flare up in the darkness make mighty exciting cinema. Some of the comic relief from combat-a paratrooper who falls from the skies beside a little old lady on her way to the outhouse, another paratrooper who plummets kerplop into a well-is witty and welcome. Some scenes, such as those of paratroopers still in their chute harnesses swinging lifeless from the battle-scarred trees, have a note of almost Goyaesque poignancy. Most of the German side of the story is presented with style by Director Wicki (The Bridge...
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