Word: thuds
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...something didn't feel right. As the blade pierced the soil, the metal struck something hard that gave off a hollow thud. Intrigued, Suárez finished his business, hitched up his pants, and began rooting around with his hands. After burrowing down about one foot, he discovered the top of a blue plastic five- gallon container. Suárez pried off the lid. Like foam in a beer stein, a white substance topped the 30-inch-tall barrel. Was it cocaine? Suárez plunged his hands into the powder, which turned out to be ant poison, then pulled...
...Skepticism about China is not new. Lawyer Gordon Chang published The Coming Collapse of China in 2001, and he's been waiting for the thud ever since. In a recent column in Forbes magazine, Chang insisted China's third-quarter GDP growth this year is unlikely to be "anywhere near" the official 8.9% cited by Beijing...
...flesh, silver heads. A live fish flails on the counter. There are clams in purple shells, small octopi, and other sea creatures already mashed into balls for soup. Lengths of meat dangle in butcher shops, knuckled feet still attached, shoppers’ chattering punctuated by cleaver’s thud...
...inch mallet creates a satisfying thwack!, not a dull thud, against the ball, which flies precisely in the direction he intends even as he sits atop an animal that could be moving from 25 to 35 miles per hour. Nick rides the horse with a knowing intimacy, as he rhythmically pumps his upper body so that the two work as one fluid unit. No longer is Nick an awkward ursine: he’s a four-legged creature with two abdomens...
...move—to drive him off the line of the ball. Early in the third chukker, Hutchinson wildly flails his horse at Nick’s to ride him off, unsteadying his opponent. With a graceful tumble off the side of his horse, Nick lands with a powdery thud. The umpires call a simple penalty against UConn, and Nick receives a free shot at the goal...