Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...color and perfume of flowers was real again-Maine's goldenrod, Wisconsin's black-eyed Susan, New Mexico's Indian paintbrush. Suddenly there was nothing outlandish in the thud of a punted football, the rhythm of a dance band, the bright expensive look of department-store windows, and the solid, unshattered buildings. Across the land last week it was hot, and once more the U.S. people could listen with contentment to that most peaceful of all evening music-the tinkling of the lawn sprinklers, turning drowsily in the darkness...
...most U.S. war plants, war contracts fell with a thud at General Electric Company's giant Appliance & Merchandise Department in Bridgeport, Conn, last week. As fast as Washington could send telegrams, almost hourly, news of new cancelations flashed through the many divisions-no more bazookas, no more rocket launchers, no more B-29 gun turret parts, no more searchlights...
Sport stars usually fall faster than they rise, and Gunder (''The Wunder") Hägg fell with a thud on last winter's U.S. tour. One slow time win in five tries was the best he could do, after training on hard surfaces had pounded the spring from his legs. When deflated Gunder got home, he went to Valadalen in northern Sweden, where he had trained in the palmy days of his 4:04.6 and 4:06.2 miles. Over trails quilted with moss and pine needles, he slowly coaxed the fjader (spring) back into his legs...
Archibald Percival Wavell was born (1883) near his father's barracks in Essex. He was cradled to the blare of bugles, lulled by the thud of marching feet. At the age of six, he first saw India (on the same trip he also took his first look at Egypt). A boy of few words, he noted briefly in his diary: "Went ashore at Port Said." He received a stern classical schooling at Winchester (the twelfth of his line to go there), proceeded comfortably through Sandhurst, then, like his father before him, joined the Black Watch Regiment, in which...
...from the Campo Mayo. One day last year Porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) were alarmed by the regular thud of military boots on the Avenida General Paz, the rumble of moving caissons. From the Campo Mayo, Army headquarters, dashed truckloads of soldiers with machine guns. They converged on Casa Rosada, Argentina's Government House. In less than half a day the corrupt, unpopular, three-year administration of President Ramon S. Castillo was ended...