Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a Thud...
Unsure of what to do, a small group of American soldiers, who had landed only hours before, stood aside to let the trio pass. Once inside the terminal, the Haitian officers began methodically beating their silent and defenseless prisoner. Listening to the sickening thud of fists on flesh, one of the U.S. soldiers turned his face away and exclaimed, "They're really messing him up. And we can't do anything...
...Frank Sinatra began crooning an encore of My Way to a sold-out crowd in Richmond, Virginia, a week ago. Midway through his signature tune, dripping with sweat, the 78-year-old singer called for a chair, then suddenly collapsed. The audience gasped as he landed facedown with a thud. "I thought he had died," Sinatra's bass player told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "I always figured he'd go onstage." Revived a few moments later, Sinatra was rushed off in a wheelchair and spent a few hours in a local hospital before flying to his home in Rancho Mirage...
Russia has an inverse-survival law of political totems: the more images of a leader there were, the fewer there will be. Since 1989, cities from the Danube to the Urals have heard the liberating thud of bronze Lenins being pulled from their pedestals. But the biggest migration of images into oblivion began in 1956, three years after the Maximum Leader's death, when Nikita Khrushchev made a speech denouncing Joseph Stalin...
President Neil L. Rudenstine released his plan for Harvard's future in October, and it landed with a thud...