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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...
...everybody Jumping." Everybody jumped. The room resounded with the steady thump. The line coach watched a boy try to sink a basketball at the far end of the court...