Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Special Session. It will land with a dull thud on the party circuit. Word soon leaked that the report contains no suggestion that any ministers save Jack Profumo had been flagrantly indiscreet, or that the former Secretary for War had been guilty of any breach of security. However, the report was expected to criticize Macmillan's government for its failure to act in the Profumo case for more than a year after security agents were aware that the War Secretary was sharing Christine Keeler's favors with Soviet Naval Attaché Evgeny Ivanov. This aspect of the case...
Like a Loser. At the Post and its parent Curtis Publishing Co., the verdict landed with a thud. Its secondary effects had yet to be studied as advertisers assess the damage done to the Post's reputation. "The Story of a College Football Fix" was only one entry in Editor Clay Blair Jr.'s program of "sophisticated muckraking," designed to rejuvenate the magazine. That program has already generated three other libel actions-one of them filed by Alabama Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant for the very same article...
Jody Locker and Mark Bramhall, as two servants, started the show off with a nearly disastrous thud; it took many minutes for the rest of the cast to repair the damage caused by their ineptitude...
...cocktails and dinner (dessert: glace académique), the guests made little speeches about the affinity of Harvardmen for the presidency (John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and their host), and Kennedy got up to make a few remarks. As he spoke, there was a thud. There, on the floor of the candlelit State Dining Room, lay 54-year-old Overseer Laurence Mallinckrodt, who had had a mild heart attack. After Mallinckrodt was made comfortable on the floor to await an ambulance, the President and his company discreetly tiptoed around him and assembled...
Finches and crows stage nasty attacks, but seagulls turn out to be deadliest. At the climax, Rod Taylor has barricaded his house, nailed planks over the windows, locked the doors, lighted a fire against invasion down the chimney. Suddenly, out of the stillness, comes the thud of heavy bird bodies hurling against the walls, the crashing of glass as birds smash windowpanes, the splintering of wood as beaks peck through the door. One gull manages to wriggle inside a window barricade; before Taylor can strangle it, his arm and hand have been bloodied. The sound track -there...