Word: thump
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Failure in Battle. At 2100 hours there was a muffled stirring within the enemy lines. Mortars opened up, thump and rustle, against six French strongpoints. Communist 1055 and 755 put down harassing fire-nothing more-upon the isolated strongpoint of Isabelle, three miles to the south. At 2 200, high explosives cracked sharply from the edge of the French barbed wire. Then four Red regiments drove in relentlessly. They achieved tactical surprise...
Targets Guaranteed. For fees ranging from $2,000 (minimum) to $15,000 (for churches with more than 5,000 families), Wells puts on a thump-and-slogan campaign which usually exceeds what a church expects to raise, and guarantees (all but the smallest churches) to hit the target...
...Thump, Thump. The next day was Mamie's syth birthday, and the carillon in Peace Tower tinkled out Dixie and Yankee Doodle as she drove to Parliament House. In the oak-paneled, green-carpeted House of Commons, the President addressed a joint session of Parliament...
...music by Chopin) on its floor. Delacroix painted in Nohant's garden studio, and such famous guests as Balzac, Theophile Gautier and Alfred de Vigny argued and tittle-tattled in its drawing room. In the middle years of the 19th century, Nohant's halls, echoed to the thump of packed bags as estranged lovers and mistresses stormed down them-and if Nohant's old walls could speak, many a French family tree would require botanical reclassification...
...when he produces the trump that his opponents have failed to snare, or when he makes his slam or sets his opponents. An old bridge friend says: "The card rises vertically in the President's hand, then describes a 90-degree arc. It hits the table with a thump, upsetting ash trays and opponents...