Word: thumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somebody pressed the "up" button, but the elevator (ah, symbolism) headed down-straight from the lobby of Long Island's Garden City Hotel into the basement, where it landed with a distinct thump. Said Nelson Rockefeller: "Well, we can't go down any farther. We're at the bottom." Said Happy: "Oh well, then I won't worry about it." After five interminable minutes, the doors opened and Nelson, Happy and eight other passengers climbed out. "Hey," gawked a workman, "it's the Governor." "Hey, Governor!" shouted another, holding out a house phone, "say hello...
...voice as a writer, a voice in which masculine force was suffused with feminine tenderness, and boulevardiering decadence with a wonderful country freshness. In her 50s she extended her mastery. Her ideas, her images became ever more exact and effective. "The dog lay down with a great rumble and thump that sounded like a bag of potatoes being emptied"-"At the windows hung some nasty little curtains fit for wrapping abortions...
Outwitting the Computer. The first hint of trouble came five seconds after the $500 million plane lifted off from Southern California's Edwards Air Force Base. Hearing a loud thump on the fuselage and seeing a red warning light blinking on the control panel, Alvin White, 47, North American Aviation's chief test pilot in the West, and his copilot, Air Force Colonel Joseph Cotton, 44, knew something was amiss with their landing gear. Pursuit jets monitoring the flight reported that one of the two tires on Cecil's forward gear had blown and the entire assembly...
...eerie lull settled over Southeast Asia last week, broken only by the rumble of Polish-built trucks on Red in filtration routes and the steady thump of American bombs aimed at interdicting them. The lull was reflected in South Viet Nam by battle statistics: the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese allies suffered only 456 dead in the previous week-the lowest toll since January 1965-and even when U.S. air cavalrymen surrounded three Red regiments near Bong Son last week, the bulk of the Communist force slipped furtively away. The enemy battalion that was finally trapped...
...good pun and a useful one in a century overburdened with Bonapartes. Like a swarm of corpulent drones they rose from the thickets of Corsica and fell with a sodden thump on the sinecures of empire. Noisy, ugly, greedy, provincial, quarrelsome, ostentatious, lewd and downright criminal, they terrorized Europe off and on from 1801 to 1870 and frightened Napoleon himself almost as much as the Grand Alliance did. All through his reign they ridiculed, insulted and cheated him, and when he needed them most a number of them cynically betrayed him to his enemies. Of all modern dynasties, the Bonapartes...