Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hunting expedition in Missouri, baseball's grandest unretired old (41) man, New York Yankee Outfielder Enos Slaughter, trailed his two companions and their setters by about 10 yds. Suddenly the two other hunters heard a thud just behind them. Whirling around, they saw Slaughter grinning and, a later paced-off 30 ft. from him, a rabbit kicking its last. Said Marksman Slaughter: "Well, you wouldn't want me shooting back here, so I just whomped it with a rock." Then he modestly added: "Shucks, it wasn't moving...
...these small lives and bourgeois problems, history unfolds like a rolling backdrop. There are vignettes of barbed wire and mud from the trenches, glimpses of the headlines and early newsreels of the period, episodes of the air war with the Parisian night crisscrossed by searchlights and rocked by the thud of primitive bombs. Author Troyat, Russian-born but an adoptive Frenchman since his youth, writes out of a passionate love of France. His Pierre and Amelie in their simplicity and capacity for goodness seem closer to the gentle peasant folk of Tolstoy than the rapacious villagers of Balzac. Yet even...
...four nights last week the heart of Warsaw echoed to the whomp and hiss of exploding tear-gas bombs, the thud of rubber truncheons on human flesh and the taunting cries of "Gestapo, Gestapo," that came from the throats of thousands of rioting Polish university students. It was the most serious civil disturbance since the bloody Poznan rebellion of last year...
...lurched to one side, straightened out, began to drop away, spewing metal shards. The trouble: one engine had lost power, thrown the Bird out of kilter, made the missile a safety hazard. On Cape Canaveral test officers quickly reacted, exploded Atlas by remote control. The missile crashed with a thud into the surf only a few miles from its launching site...
...came the tremendous moment, when the four sprinters vanished into the tunnel for the start of the 220 yards. There was a dreadful pause, a muffled thud, and then--nothing. It was a false start. Another pause, and at last a louder bang. A moment's agony, and then there was Abrahams scudding along like some great bird, with a four yard lead. He went further and further in front, running superbly, to win by seven yards in 21.6." Thus did the Times describe the climax of Abrahams' nearly single-handed win over the visitors...