Word: thud
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...fight." That fight, indeed, has already started, as law enforcement officials attempt to discover who was behind the atrocities and how they might be brought to justice. And it is a fight in which the forensic processes of the criminal-justice system promise to be augmented by the thud and thump of military action...
...Then?thud!?a small green Samsonite suitcase appeared. The one labeled in meticulous Japanese writing. The one belonging to right fielder Ichiro Suzuki...
...often lose children to illness, could relate to. She miscarried 10 weeks into her only pregnancy in 1997. As she later wrote in a candid essay to her church, "I felt like I had fallen from a huge cliff, without a parachute, and hit bottom with an incredible thud." Eventually, with prayer and Prozac, Roni recovered. And she used the experience in her mission work, advising other grieving women to put their relationship with God before their personal desires...
...Street's flicker of hope has a couple of ways to get doused, starting with those same earnings reports that may or may not follow Amazon's cheery lead. Thursday's inflation number, if it's way, way up, could put those Fed rumors to bed with a thud. Then there's the fact of the good mood itself - a few rallies between now and the week's end could make the mood on Good Friday too good...
...ripping the hood off another car, metal clanging, a 16-minute red flag to clean up the mess--and only a bum shoulder, Stewart's, as a result. Then on the last turn of the last lap, Earnhardt's famous black No. 3 Chevy Monte Carlo plowed--thud--into the wall and drifted back out, nose smashed. No fire, no catapulting frames. Ironhead had walked away from stuff that looked a lot worse than this. "No one ever expected Dale Earnhardt to die in a race car," said Max Helton, a NASCAR chaplain...