Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secret that the ball went flying over Boone's head on the snap, and that Boone, the referee, and Craze led a mad dash in hot pursuit. Boone reached the pigskin at his own five-yard line, tried to scoop it up, got hit, and heard a thud or two as Craze and Harvard tackle Dick Diehl leaped over him. Craze won the ball, and Lehigh won the game. Larko kicked the extra point to make the score...
...despair. "So terribly much has happened," he wrote last week, "so terribly much is happening, and all with such terrible speed, that it is difficult to foresee where we are headed. The men who fancy themselves in control of events are no longer really in control. Meanwhile, the steady thud of nuclear explosions deafens the eastern atmosphere while spinning far beyond and trembling below the rocky formations of the West...
...clock in the afternoon, a small cloud of sand puffed over Rainier Mesa, Nev. From a tunnel deep below the mesa's sandy surface, a muffled thud rose to shake the desert silence. Minutes later in Washington, President John F. Kennedy announced that the U.S. had "reluctantly" completed its first nuclear-weapons test in nearly three years...
...scaled 15 ft. California Schoolboy Ulis Williams, 19, chased Veteran Olympic Champion Otis Davis, 28, to the wire in the 440, finished only 0.2 sec. behind him. An unorthodox upstart from Southern California, Bob Avant, dived headfirst over the high-jump bar, somersaulted onto his back with a crunching thud after clearing 7 ft. to beat Boston University's John Thomas. Loose-limbed Ralph Boston of Tennessee State landed only ¼ in. shy of his third 27-ft. broad jump, and three men heaved the 16-lb. shot more than...
...that the Loeb Pleasure Palace houses in its bottomless toy box, in an immense and elaborate hymn to tedium. Peer Gynt fell--like the silly feathered pig which makes an agonizing descent from the rafters (while the actors stand and star, speechless)--with a long long, oh so long thud. (Three long hours...