Word: thump
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beatchick and cuts out. Lately, beatniks in increasing numbers have been cutting out of the incipient squareness of San Francisco and swinging in the shabby little Los Angeles beach community of Venice. There last week the regular inhabitants were howling in protest almost loud enough to drown out the thump of the bongos...
...itself a brief lapse into professional sentiment, the New York Times took editorial note of the end of the 19-day newspaper strike, which had cost nine New York dailies $30 million. Said the Times: "The sounds dear to the newspaper man's heart, the clattering Linotypes, the thump of the make-up man's mallet, the thunder of the presses, the soft swish of the emerging newspapers: this song will not be silenced...
...Vagabond shut the door of his room behind him and fell onto the couch. He kicked off one shoe, listened to the thump with which it hit the floor, kicked off the other one, and listened to it thump...
...thump of five military bands, the army that had fought two wars and waged many a border skirmish wound its way back without incident to the Mediterranean plain. In a ringing, patriarchal oration, B-G reviewed its triumphs: "The state arose not through the decision of the U.N. but through the determined will of the Jewish people and the heroism of its precious sons and daughters...
...Marina decides to live, and she comes bursting out of her doll's house with all the thump and golly of an oldfashioned, wear-the-pants, want-the-vote feminist. Along with his last-century liberalism, alas, Moviemaker Cacoyannis brings a last-century sentimentality. But somehow, despite its faults, the film is all of a piece, all of a personality, well cut and remarkably well photographed. It is just possibly the best full-length talking picture ever made...