Word: thudded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...snap was perfect. I didn't look up because all I could think about was getting it off quickly. I kicked it, and I knew it was blocked right away--I mean, I heard the thud. I couldn't believe it because I've never had one blocked before...
Sarah falls in this scene, but she lands with an indecorous thud and giggles nervously, as the modern Anna might. Charles is hitting his emotional keys too hard: he sputters and foams out of control. There is not even a mention of their child, no real explanation for Sarah's disappearance. The moment when the lovers finally embrace-the climax awaited by every reader of the novel, anticipated by every new viewer of the film-seems ruinously flat...
...week's end Habib arrived back in Beirut to the scream and thud of some of the heaviest shelling and artillery fire since the civil war. He needed no further reminder of the urgency of attaining a broader U.S. goal: to work out a settlement among the warring factions in Lebanon so that crises would not keep on exploding like a series of land mines. To that end, Habib has also been seeking ways to strengthen Lebanon's army, to get the Syrians to take more responsibility for disruptive left-wing activities in and around Beirut...
...typical night of terror in the capital city. As Radio Uganda broadcast the news that Obote's Uganda People's Congress had won a majority in the new 126-seat parliament, the air was filled with the crackle of machine guns and the dull thud of exploding grenades. At the Speke Hotel, headquarters of the 60-member Commonwealth observer team that had monitored the voting, diplomats dove under the dining room tables. Asked why roaming, drunken soldiers were shooting up the city, a young private replied: "Because we are rejoicing." It was chilling to contemplate what the trigger...
...comic relief came before the start of the 220. With runners on the line, the starter standing on the edge of the banked curve toppled off the track, landed with a resounding "thud," and had to scramble back up to set the runners off. The crowd in the gallery roared--it enjoys good slapstick as much as good running...