Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shouted: "Assassin!" Communist Carlo Farini advanced with clenched fists upon the rightist deputies. He was followed by a strong Communist detachment. Then Pietro Nenni, a follower of the party line, led a sizable Socialist task force into the fray. Inkwells hurtled. Chairs were swung. Fists landed with a satisfying thud on legislative noses. Nearly 200 deputies took part in the brawl. Centrists tried frantically to untangle the Right and the Left...
...year ago Curtis Publishing Co. rushed the first big postwar magazine to market, then stepped back to await the applause. It was far from deafening. Well heralded Holiday hit the newsstands with a thud, and at 50? a copy most people just let it lie. It was hard to tell the stories from the ads, and the editors themselves hadn't decided whether they were describing a Roman holiday or a beggar...
...Jerusalem echoed with the shattering thud of mines and the staccato gibberish of machine-gun fire, the overwhelming majority of Palestine's 600,000 Jews last week turned definitely and bitterly against the terrorism of Zionist extremists. They had gone...
Pretentious thud that it is, The Razor's Edge nonetheless rates a round of applause for trying to be a movie with an Idea. The real trouble in this case: the movie technicians-including the director-are far too clever and too efficient for their material; it has become dangerous to let them kick an Idea around-unless it is a very, very robust Idea. By the time 4.000 competent craftsmen have focused their cold lights on Mr. Maugham's little sermon, pulled it through 89 dressy sets, photographed it tenderly from every possible angle and spiced...
There are connoisseurs who go to hockey games just to exult over a weaving solo dash or delight in a well-coordinated scoring play, but rank-&-file hockey fans would still rather hear a player thud against the boards, or see a good fist fight...