Word: staccatos
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...fort still held out. From his command post Figueres opened up across the city's roofs with more guns than Costa Ricans knew they had. The staccato poc-poc of tommy guns mingled with the belch of mortars and the harsh slam of 50-calibre machine guns. The fort and surrounding houses were riddled. By the time the last rebels gave up, an estimated seven were dead, a score wounded...
...Stalino, where he had found a job pushing coal cars in the mines. With 500 others, Abraham was marched away to a field outside town, ordered to stand in front of an anti-tank ditch and stripped of his clothes. He fainted, and fell too soon to hear the staccato of the German machine guns. When he awoke it was dark and rainy, the ditch was filled with bodies. Abraham lay still. Later he crawled on hands and knees and found four other men who had survived. The men hid in a haystack and, in the morning, cautiously made their...
...landscapes," Hopkinson explained I'm concerned with the flow of line in a mountain or a tree-the gesture of the thing." To capture it he works even faster than most watercolorists, using fluid and staccato strokes of vibrant color, but unlike more abstract moderns he never lets "the gesture of the thing" obscure the thing itself. "Being a sentimentalist, I want to get across the pleasure of what I see in nature...
...about how Betty succumbed to tuberculosis (in her post-Egg days) and was incarcerated in a grim sanatorium for 8½ months. A whimsical vivisection of almost every organ in the female body, and a description of the life & death around her-"small dry coughs, loose phlegmy coughs, short staccato coughs, long whooping coughs"-it has all the frank appeal of a public hanging...
...masqueraded as a Piccadilly Circus flower girl, or sold matches, to learn the needs and ways of the poor she was dedicated to help. To campaign against liquor, she bought a guitar and charmed boozers out of pubs with her singing. She began to preach in the vivid, staccato style that later packed the biggest auditoriums...