Word: thud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Terrington's first warning of the impending disaster came when an emergency warning light and a buzzer went off, signaling trouble in the plane's left engine. At about the same moment, an explosion resounded throughout the airport. "It was like a dull thud," said Neal Andrews, 38, a cab-driver who was waiting in the airport's taxi line. "I thought it was a tire blowing out," Sharon Jessop, 18, a student from Manchester, recalled nine hours after her harrowing escape from the wreckage...
...Democrats knew they were going to lose. They had time to steel themselves, to discount the loss and change the subject to 1988. Nevertheless, when the digital displays started flicking on Tuesday evening and the vote totals appeared, the thud of defeat was at last palpable. The party has now lost four of the past five presidential elections. It is being deserted by the nation's middle class and, perhaps even worse, by the young. One Democratic strategist, a key figure in the past four presidential campaigns, seemed almost excited by his own gloominess. "This party...
...placid Maronite monastery perched high above the Mediterranean, Patriarch Antoine Pierre Cardinal Khoraiche had convened a meeting of religious leaders from Lebanon's Christian communities. Even as they discussed the worsening crisis besetting their country, the distant thud of heavy artillery sounded in the hills beyond, and reports circulated of mistreatment of Muslims by Christians and of Christians by Muslims. Before parting, the clerics called for a combined effort by Lebanon's religious leaders to seek an end to sectarian bloodletting. Within hours, preparations were under way for an extraordinary "spiritual summit" between Christians and Muslims...
...exulted Koppel. Donahue was the designated baiter. Zap, pow, thud! If the candidates could do that to one another, think what they could do to the deficits, Pentagon cost overruns and those nasty types in Latin America...
...shark spotted on the five-hour trip from the out island of Carriacou than any trouble we expected ashore. Two U.S. helicopters had buzzed us as we approached, and we waved back with our cameras and radios. But as we came closer to the coastline, we heard the dull thud of bombs over the noise of the throbbing diesel engine, and with each thud, Big Alfred stubbornly refused to go any farther. We coaxed and cajoled him over almost each wave with the radio reports that the quay in St. George's had been secured by the attackers...