Word: throbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britons on the North Sea coast remember that only 20 years ago they were tumbling from their beds to dash for crude shelters as warning sirens screamed and the dull throb of German Zeppelin motors advanced through the grey-black fog. Determined to be better prepared to protect the civilian population in the event of another war, the House of Commons last week took up for its third and final reading the Air-Raid Precautions Bill...
...turned back the blankets and sank beneath them. The touch of sheets cooled and soothed his body. He stretched his toes out; it was a pleasant sensation; it relaxed him. His head began to throb...
...Juliet does some speculating about where-fore Romeo is Romeo and not Caspar Milquetoast or some other moniker that would rid the young pigeons of the family barriers between them. And the tone of her voice--that tender caress of a voice, instinct with primal passion and heart-throb and love--gives a musical quality and dramatic force that's been associated with it ever since. If you said to us "Romeo" and we replied "Romeyback" that would be that. But when Juliet, atop the rose-kirtled balcony, breathes out on the sweet smelling evening, "Ah, Romeo...
...convinced that where I failed no one could have succeeded," concluded the Prime Minister. "Let no word be spoken that causes pain to any soul and let us not forget today the revered, beloved figure of Queen Mary." The speech also contained that little throb of penitence which has for years been the trademark of every "crisis speech" by Stanley Baldwin. A democratic Prime Minister must undertake no great matter without informing at least three or four principal members of the British Cabinet. Of his approach to Edward VIII on this gravest issue, the Prime Minister told the House...
...weeks trenches hastily dug in the outer boulevards have been guarded by groups of excitable, untrained Red Militia. Despite all this, nobody in the centre of the capital could quite believe last week that the final attack on Madrid was so close, until the wind shifted and the deep throb of distant cannonading sounded over the city...