Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a trickle of goods, but it was a triumph, even though small, for his side of the Reconversion War. For Nelson, with many other officials, believes that war workers will stick to their high-pay jobs only if they are sure that peace will not come with a thud. And workers could see the end of war production coming...
...dozen or more men participating. First he handed a marine a hand grenade. The marine jumped into the quarry and began to edge toward the cave while one of his pals covered him with a Garand. The grenade was tossed into the cave. It burst with a muffled thud. In a movie version of killing Japs, the incident might have ended at this point. But marines have long since learned that one grenade does not always finish off the occupants of a cave or pillbox; almost invariably there are five to 20 Japs in whatever hole you might expect...
With each retreat, also, the poison of defeat will spread. Especially vulnerable will be the Balkans, wrhere the heavy thud of approaching Russian sapogi (boots) might well set off explosive anti-German sentiment. The German command knows well the dangers implicit in these airline distances from the Eastern front: to the Ploesti oil fields, 530 miles; to the old Polish frontier, 95 miles; to Germany proper, 475 miles...
...wound up with a lurching thud against the far side of a deep ditch, just short of the highway. No one shouted or said a word. With thick, fumbling fingers we unlatched the safety belts. General Lee slumped forward, dazed and winded. It was his luck to be the only one knocked out. Most of our passengers scrambled out into the battle, left one officer and me to drag wiry, 48-year-old General Lee out on to the ground. A young paratrooper came by, stared in awe at the wreck, then laughed and said: "Jeez! You must have guts...
...column of bronzed troops swung crisply from a company street. A band fell in at the head of the column, flashed back the bright Florida sun from its burnished instruments as it thumped the Army Air Corps march. Its song rose and fell against a discordant background: the muffled thud of shotguns, the crisp crack of .30-caliber machine guns, the sulky bark...