Word: thuds
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...questions when they present their case. But as in the criminal trial, it may be hard to recognize a defining moment when it actually occurs. Detective Mark Fuhrman's testimony that he had not used the word nigger in the past 10 years at first fell with an anticlimactic thud; it was only later, when he was revealed as a liar, that the case shattered open. Simpson may find himself caught in a similar trap. For if his testimony is right, so many people--and so much evidence--must be wrong...
Similarly, Yale (1-1, 1-0) came back to earth with a thud as Skip Holtz's Connecticut team bounced them, 42-6. Yale's number one rusher and receiver, junior back Jabbar Craigwell, sprained a knee ligament, and his status for this week is uncertain...
Zamora brandished a barbell weight and smashed it with a sickening thud on the younger girl's head, according to police. To the horror of her attackers, Jones crawled out through the car window. But the blow had fractured her skull and lacerated her brain. She staggered only a little way to a barbed-wire gate before collapsing. "I knew," Graham told police, "I couldn't leave the key witness to our crime alive." Armed with a Russian-made Makarov pistol, he fired twice. One bullet caught her right between the eyes. The entire episode was over in about...
...crisp snap of an October morn. The distant roar of a football stadium. The chatty drone of Oscar hopefuls being hyped. The inescapable thud as Michael Crichton's next best seller hits bookstores every-where. Yes, fall brings not only nature's harvest but culture's as well. A selective look at the new season's glories...
...power is clout, like the thud of an iron heel. Influence is sway, like being rocked in a hammock. But like the grass in Carl Sandburg's poem, influence has a way of spreading until it overwhelms every bump in its path. Leonid Brezhnev had power. Andrei Sakharov had influence. Power: the FCC. Influence: Howard Stern. What this means is that influence generally gets the last laugh. Alexander Hamilton never attained the presidency. His philosophical antagonist Thomas Jefferson did. But the world has gone Hamilton's way. By most measures, the country we live in today more closely resembles...