Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McInally stood up and placed a soccer ball about 20 feet in front of the green baseball backstop next to Watson Rink. He studied the ball for an instant, then flung his lanky frame at it, arms and legs flying in clutzy precision. THWACK! His foot hit the ball. THUD! The ball hit the wooden backstop and bounced back to McInally. He frowned...
...kicked the ball again. THWACK! His foot made contact. THUD! The ball hit wood. McInally stopped the ball with his foot and kicked it again. But this kick didn't please him any more than the last. He was hitting the ball with the wrong part of his foot...
...THWACK! THUD:" I can't do it," McInally said. The ball came to rest near his foot...
...THWACK! THUD! "I just hurt my fucking knee...
...broke out last April between Phalangists and Moslems. In no time, according to the story, the Iraqis were attacked by Christians. Before long the incident had somehow escalated into Beirut's third round of street fighting in as many months. The stutter of automatic weapons fire and the thud of rockets and mortars echoed through the streets once more, in a continuation of the worst crisis that Lebanon has suffered since 1958, when civil war broke out and U.S. Marines landed. An estimated 450 people were killed during the first two rounds of fighting in April and May. Last...