Word: thudded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every period of sweeping change, life outruns its popular interpreters. Happenings come too fast; old familiar actors on the stage of history are whisked away and disappear; newcomers crowd in, get half through their opening lines and vanish with a dull thud and a gurgle...
...toenails were painted red. > Collier's Correspondent William Hillman broadcast that Hess had been converted to Buchmanism, had flown to Britain to "share" his sins. > Said Parliament's court jester, A. P. Herbert: "One day it may be these islands will shake to an unprecedented thud as Reich Marshal Göring-a parachute at each corner-settles on and perhaps submerges the Isle of Wight or Skye." > A London newsie chalked on his placard "Extra! Return of Loch Ness Monster." > Other professional and amateur British humorists punned at length. Examples: Mein Dekampf, Your Hess is as good...
Inspector Pennington named no names, did not say any arrests had been made. He contented himself with a policemanly remark that the plot had been "nipped in the bud." The G-Man's story fell with a dull thud. Mr. Dies zoomed on to more lectures, bigger raids...
...weather, of the Christmas shutdown. In many a mill town the rising whine of the headsaw biting into a log dies away; the absence of the pulsing rhythm of a sawmill-compounded of the piercing wing-wing of the trimmer, of the throb of the conveyors, of the thud of lumber falling on transfer chains-makes every day seem like Sunday. The noon whistle, no longer a deep roar that reaches for miles through the woods, is just a perfunctory hoot for the millwrights working on repairs in the silent recesses of the mill. Workmen in this part...
...dedication of the Foshay Tower-a 32-story skyscraper modeled after the Washington Monument. That was the biggest day in the life of Wilbur Burton Foshay, utilitycoon. Within two months his whole inflated superstructure of utility, finance and real-estate companies collapsed with a $20,000,000 thud. W. B. Foshay went looking...