Word: thuds
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Tensions between the strikers and the nonstrikers grew. One night, the bad blood got out of hand as one of the antistrike comics tried to drive a car through the picket line, brushing some of the comics and knocking Leno to the pavement with a loud thud. Dreesen ran over to him, panicked that he had been seriously hurt. Leno gave Dreesen a wink; he was only feigning an injury and had thumped the car with his hand. But he got hauled off to the hospital in an ambulance anyway, and the incident seemed to sober up both sides...
...picket line, protecting the strikers from harassment by Mitzi loyalists. One night, the bad blood got out of hand, as one of the antistrike comics tried to drive a car through the picket line, brushing some of the comics and knocking Jay Leno to the pavement with a loud thud. Dreesen ran over to him, panicked that Leno had been seriously injured. Leno gave him a wink; he was only feigning an injury and had thumped the car with his hand. But he got hauled off to the hospital in an ambulance anyway, and the incident seemed to sober...
...Lieberman-Warner is perfect. Its emissions targets should be tougher, and it gives away too many pollution allowances for free. But let's dream for a moment. If it manages to pass both houses of Congress (a mighty big if), the bill would land with a thud on George W. Bush's desk shortly before the 2008 election. Bush has always said he would veto any bill with mandatory carbon caps. But he recently sent a back-channel signal to Congress that he might be willing to deal. Now that would be some abrupt and irreversible climate change...
...could anybody say such a thing? It's horrifying. It's outrageous. It's disgraceful. It's just beyond the pale ... It's ... oh, my heavens ... say, is it a bit stuffy in here? ... I think I'm going to ... Could I have a glass of ... oh, dear [thud...
...That perception helped to finish Blair. Now, as rival commentators battle to define the legacy of his decade in power, Campbell has joined the argument with characteristic force. Not for him the equivocation of a modern history, the introspection of an autobiography: this week, with a resounding thud, Campbell dropped The Blair Years, his voluminous personal diaries, into the middle of the debate...