Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lakers basketball star (in Robertson's). A disproportionate number of good men happen to be carpenters. Prayer, usually printed in italics, abounds. Many narratives grind to a halt for thinly disguised Bible classes. Robertson pads his story this way. Phrases like "jump down to verses twelve and thirteen" thud into conversation...
Almost the diametric opposite of Brown, Cornell looks like a team on the descent. The Big Red started the 1994 campaign out on a very high note, with victories in six consecutive weeks. And then the wheels fell off the wagon. Cornell crashed to earth with a thud: four straight losses to end the season...
...Rudy had neglected to teach me until the day before. Slowly I pulled up to the car in front, slowly I turned The wheel and began backing up and slowly, ever so slowly, I backed the car into the curb, coming to a halt with a gentle, yet firm thud. My test was over...
Until last night. The game against Cornell seemed to be thoroughly different than Harvard's other engagements. The Crimson played with intensity unseen previously this season. One moment, senior guard James White (four points) knocks the ball away from a Cornell player and lands with a thud on the ground. The next, junior forward Mike Gilmore (10 points) slams one of his two dunks home, causing the home bench to jump...
...circled over, then it turned sideways and just came straight down," Sturgeon said. "It didn't explode--it was going straight down, and there was about a second, and then a big thud...