Word: thuddingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heard a thud on the mat and looked up. Bob Ogden was rubbing his left shoulder. "Was that an Uchi-Mata?" he asked his opponent, foigning civility...
There was another thud, and Ing walked off rubbing his right hip. "Protty good," he admitted...
There's No Business Like Show Business (20th Century-Fox) is another picture that does a lot of big-name-dropping -Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Marilyn Monroe and Johnnie Ray-and some of the names drop with a big thud. The show is an Irving Berlin potpourri, containing some good old sweetmeats along with a few fresh-picked sour apples. The mixture will probably simmer steadily at the box office, even though fussy moviegoers feel they have reached the Berlin point. Singer-Dancer Mitzi Gaynor has a figure that suggests a finely machined...
Swinging down and down to a jolting thud on a field of green alfalfa, Parson Von Norman thought of the 23rd Psalm: "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures." Pilot Wilson jumped too, and the empty plane crashed. On the ground the men gathered, bruised and nervous. "Praise God from whom all blessings flow," someone said. Later, reporters asked the shaken clergymen how they had felt, faced by a moment that often brings even the most hardened sinners to repentance. One of them answered for all. "There was plenty of prayer going on," he said...
...thud, The old Deuce-Four begins...