Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Teran was a pit crewman, just 22. To someone standing a few feet away, the sound of the thud was enough. Teran was dead. But the reflex thought was the irony of betrayal, not the horror of racing. Who would think to look both ways before stepping out into the alltime one-way street? George Bignotti, the famed engine builder, picked up Armando Teran's shoes. After the rest of the debris was picked up, the race resumed...
...lines of traffic in New England stopped at red lights, the Texans are more efficient, using four-way stop signs, one of which I hadn't noticed because I was worrying about the motor stalling My right foot braked; there was a crunch of metal against metal and a thud when my left arm hit the dashboard. What would my father think? What about the lady in the other car? What about the Oranges...
...takes 30 minutes to master a computerized cash register, regardless of previous educational experience. Twenty-five of those minutes are spent figuring out the reverse-think that the damn things run on. Example: two large cokes = super; two; sodas; subtotal; total--thud, the drawer slams into your stomach. "Have a nice...
...Prince and Stephen Sondheim seem to have been born middleaged. Rue, disenchantment, a kind of middle-aged tristesse recur in their collaborations. In the most brilliant of them. Company and Follies, melancholia about marriage and success was imminent but airborne; in Merrily We Roll Along it falls with the thud of a foregone conclusion...
...standards now in force require both front and rear bumpers to be able to tolerate a 5-m.p.h. thud without damage to the car body and with only minor dings in the bumper. Safety is not affected much one way or the other at such low speeds, but car owners say that the better bumpers lead to fewer, and smaller, repair bills. Insurance companies argue that as a result, collision coverage rates for drivers are as much as 20% lower than they would otherwise be. The NHTSA itself evaluated the cost effectiveness of its standard twice under the Carter Administration...