Word: thumping
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...made much of the fact that when a car with nylon tires is parked overnight, its tires tend to develop a flat spot at the point of contact with the road and will go back to a perfect circle only after several miles of driving. Christening this condition "nylon thump," the rayon makers hammered away at it so successfully that Detroit still puts Tyrex on more than 98% of its new cars...
Premier David Ben-Gurion, 74, likes to thump his innumerable enemies one after the other, like a man playing a xylophone. Last week it was again the turn of the U.S. Zionists, whom Ben-Gurion ridicules as reluctant to leave the comforts of home and share the hardships of life in Israel...
...recent Sunday the quiet of a back street in Brooklyn was shattered by an automobile crash that left both cars heaps of twisted junk. "Very satisfying," said the man with the tape recorder. His boss disagreed. "It has presence," he admitted solemnly, "but the thump is missing. Let's try it again...
...snares, cymbals, tom-toms) into a sort of illustrated seminar on the art of drumming-from brush technique to rim shots. Cohn wraps his lessons into a number of his own big-band compositions with such variety and skill that listeners can forgive a little too much tick, thump...
...endless, heart-stopping moment, the tall, slim rocket hung motionless -incredibly balanced above its incandescent tail. Slowly it climbed the sky, outracing the racket of its engine as it screamed toward space. In the returning silence, the amplified thump of an electronic timer beat like a pulse across the sands of Florida's Cape Canaveral. The pulse of the nation beat with it. For this was no routine rocket shoot. Riding that long, white missile as it soared aloft last week was Navy Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., first U.S. astronaut ever fired into space. And riding with...