Word: throb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Firemen called ceaselessly above the roar of engines and the throb of the pumps: "Don't jump! Don't jump!" A latticework of ladders rose into the searchlight beams which roamed the building's face. Seven more people felt the terror, escaped the heat by diving and dying...
...enormous silence fell over U.S. industry. Nothing like it had ever happened before; all the walkouts, lockouts, panics and fires of modern times had scarcely muted the clang and throb of the nation's production. Now the fast rising tide of postwar strikes lapped up into the fire rooms of whole industries, sent 1,500,000 U.S. workmen into the midwinter streets, created ghost forests of smokeless stacks from Buffalo, N.Y. to Los Angeles, Calif...
...creations of the Slav mind-Baba Yaga (the witch who lives in a little hut that stands on hen's legs), the Sea King (who rises from the depths to enslave human beings), Zhar-ptitsa (the Firebird), Koshchey the Deathless, who is really "little father death." These stories throb with a violence that makes the atrocities of German fairy tales seem tame. If you do not finish by morning, says the Czar curtly, assigning to the hero some impossible task, I will have you shot. A King, enraged at his wife, wishes to hang her. But his friends counsel...
...scared as hell' from the time the aircraft neared the target area until it had passed well out of range of the island's defenses." His mouth was dry ("spitting cotton"), his hands were drenched in icy sweat, his heart beat so hard he could feel its throb. Over the target "there was a strong impulse to seek the shelter of any available armor plate in the cockpit. A sensation of helplessness left a deep impression; the idea of having nothing to do but watch and wait was not appealing...
...folk music with Tin Pan Alley tunes, it warbles its way across the centuries-the voice of a canoeman floating down the Ohio, a chorus raised in an Illinois clearing, a medley of tunes on a Mississippi steamboat, a soldiers' rouse round a Civil War campfire, the guttural throb of Negro blues, the frilly ditties of the Gay Nineties, the brash rhythms of speakeasy jazz...