Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found him out. When his own sleek cue was finally twisted around his neck, his murderer bolstered him against a lamp post, talked to him casually until a policeman approached on his rounds. The policeman passed. The body fell to the ground with a gruesome, final thud...
...never seen ice outside of a tumbler. The slipperiness of ice on an F Street sidewalk was new to him. Most grievously was he insulted to see in print for all the world to read, how he, Carlos Morales, had slipped on such ice, crashed with a mighty thud, required the assistance of four men to hoist him upright again...
...Londos's toes. For 21 min. 42 sec. the two groveled, grunted, snorted, glowered, slapped, twisted and oozed. Once De Vito bowled over Londos with a butt in the stomach. Finally Londos whirled De Vito around his head in an "airplane spin," threw him down with a loud thud, sat on top of his chest until old fat Ernest Roeber, who used to be a professional wrestler and now referees many of Londos's championship bouts, patted his back for winning...
...cutter swerves through town. The mountains stare down upon the valleys grown old, and spare, and bleak over night. Young boughs trail their white burden on the road way. In the woods, where the sun falls, snow slides off the needles and drops with a soft thud. A tiny rabbit scurries off on hastily remembered business and a grouse whirrs up into the blue. The world is quiet, and tranquil, and fair to see. The world is new, and merry, and very friendly...
...With Pangborn at the controls they circled the field three times, dumped the last of their gasoline and glided down. The ship landed on its iron belly, slid along in a cloud of dust, tipped up on its nose. The propeller snapped but the plane settled back with a thud...