Word: scrunch
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...every veteran remembers it. Here are the actual sights of battle which evoke its sounds as well-the off-stage hammering of long-snouted guns, the lazy pouf of shrapnel in a blue sky, the invisible stutter of machine guns, the pink of rifle fire, the scrunch of mud, the loud curses, the grunts of the living, the groans of the dying...
...like to see as well as hear, watched him fascinated, saw him hunch his great head down between his shoulders, pick with his long fingers short staccatos from the very heart of the orchestra; in a passage for strings saw him turn his back on half his band, scrunch himself down to a miserly six and a half feet and, hair waving, fly at his violins, draw unfathomable" strength from their very hearts. Musicians sat with eyes closed, contented and appreciative of his reading of Haydn's Symphony in C minor, Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony and Beethoven...