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...lurched to one side, straightened out, began to drop away, spewing metal shards. The trouble: one engine had lost power, thrown the Bird out of kilter, made the missile a safety hazard. On Cape Canaveral test officers quickly reacted, exploded Atlas by remote control. The missile crashed with a thud into the surf only a few miles from its launching site...
...came the tremendous moment, when the four sprinters vanished into the tunnel for the start of the 220 yards. There was a dreadful pause, a muffled thud, and then--nothing. It was a false start. Another pause, and at last a louder bang. A moment's agony, and then there was Abrahams scudding along like some great bird, with a four yard lead. He went further and further in front, running superbly, to win by seven yards in 21.6." Thus did the Times describe the climax of Abrahams' nearly single-handed win over the visitors...
Confused and humiliated by their defeat, millions of Japanese for a time accepted the victor's thesis that their warlike past was something to be ashamed of. But today, all over Japan, bamboo swords once again thud on steel helmets...
...tornado go past. There it goes!" Seconds later, as the black twister screamed past him, Newsman Bob Whitten of Dallas' KRLD told radio listeners how the tornado flipped a huge trailer truck 50 ft. into air, then smashed it down atop an empty car. Listeners could hear the thud of debris on and around Whitten...
...mettle was soon tested. At 9:15 one night a year ago, King was speaking at a mass meeting; Coretta King was talking to a friend in the living room of the parsonage at 309 South Jackson Street. Coretta heard a thud on the porch and thought it was a brick, nothing particularly frightening around the King home during that period. She and the friend moved to a back room to continue their conversation-and a dynamite bomb went off, filling the vacant living room with a hail of broken glass...