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...typical night of terror in the capital city. As Radio Uganda broadcast the news that Obote's Uganda People's Congress had won a majority in the new 126-seat parliament, the air was filled with the crackle of machine guns and the dull thud of exploding grenades. At the Speke Hotel, headquarters of the 60-member Commonwealth observer team that had monitored the voting, diplomats dove under the dining room tables. Asked why roaming, drunken soldiers were shooting up the city, a young private replied: "Because we are rejoicing." It was chilling to contemplate what the trigger...
...comic relief came before the start of the 220. With runners on the line, the starter standing on the edge of the banked curve toppled off the track, landed with a resounding "thud," and had to scramble back up to set the runners off. The crowd in the gallery roared--it enjoys good slapstick as much as good running...
...that became so apparent in the 14-0 humiliation against Yale. With a bad knee, the quarterback who ran 67 yards for a touchdown at Army couldn't run anymore. Nor did he throw well on that dark Saturday; thus Harvard--and its quarterback--ended the season with a thud...
...lost back-to-back starts, the only defeats of his 32-race career. Trailing in a race at Saratoga on July 5, Galbraith tapped Niatross with a whip. It was the first time the colt had ever been whipped. Startled, he bolted over the railing, sprawling with a sickening thud on the in field grass. Miraculously, he escaped with a bruise. Six days later, Niatross raced at New Jersey's Meadowlands and finished fourth...
...MUSIC BOWIE employs on Scary Monsters matches this consciousness of sub-terranean gloom: it is shuddering, dissonant, ponderous, complex. "Scream Like a Baby" opens with a thud from George Murray's bass and a wail from Bowie; then, to a leaden bass drum beat and descending synthesized tones it tells a story of pointless assimilation...