Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take a certain natural satisfaction in his prowess and may even decide that he is helping create a better world. He is encouraged in this by the fact that society seldom pays any attention; society, in fact, seldom hears the sound of scuffling, the grunts and the thud of fist on flesh...
Badger tackling was precise and vicious. "Hit 'em at the shoe-strings" seemed the Midwesterners' motto and time after time Eli ball-carriers would find their feet blasted from under them and land with a jarring thud...
...late it was, Vag guessed he'd have to hurry to make it for lunch. But there wasn't any point in getting out of bed; he had much too much of a head on him. Outside on the grass he thought he heard afternoon noises-the pleasant thud of someone catching a football, a girl's unobtrusive voice, a small car, undoubtedly a convertible, starting up. Vag groaned and turned over, facing the wall...
...Washington landlords were clamoring for the same concessions other landlords had won. This week the House's hold-the-line-in-D.C. bill landed with a thud in the Senate. The man on the spot was the District Committee chairman, Delaware's down-the-line Republican C. Douglass Buck...
...that would scarcely tax the reflective powers of a Cambridge High junior. The point--that, like Joan, we may have to make small, bitter concessions in serving the greater concept--becomes clear to the heroine through a puzzling scene in which the deus ex machina descends with a thud to the stage...