Word: thumpings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wall Street-Ole!" omits the fact that numbers can be manipulated to represent success or failure. I am not impressed with our economic gurus. They took forever to admit that our country had financial problems, and now, with the slightest "red flag waving," they thump themselves proudly on how all will be well...
...Special Envoy Philip Habib and leaders of Lebanon's warring factions sought desperately to concoct a truce, the roar of tanks and the thump of artillery fire threatened to make a mockery of their efforts. The 60,000-strong Israeli force, still trying to consolidate its control over southern Lebanon, advanced to the outskirts of Beirut. There the Israelis linked up with Christian Phalangist allies to impose a stranglehold over 6,000 Palestinian guerrillas and 1,500 Syrian soldiers trapped inside the western part of the city...
...nine days, the rattle of machine guns from helicopter gunships and the thump of heavy artillery and bombs filled the hazy air around the Salvadoran volcano of Guazapa. Some 2,000 members of the U.S.-backed Salvadoran army were attacking guerrillas holed up in deeply entrenched camps along the mountainside, about 15 miles from the capital of San Salvador (pop. 1 million...
Cain's main technical difficulty seems to be a tendency, after inventing an effective device, to continue using it until it has beaten the audience insensible. In the first courtroom scene, Polonius, at a signal from the King, begins to thump his stick on the floor. At each impact the courtiers clap in unison; gradually, the chamberlain accelerates his pounding till the room rings with hearty applause. All well and good; but, having established the procedures. Cain has Polonius repeat the gesture six of seven times before the scene closes, and at least four more times...
Frank O'Connor (1903-1966) once described the short story as "the literature of submerged population groups." It is a regional definition with an old-fashioned thump of authenticity. O'Connor, born Michael O'Donovan in Cork, was no innovator. His stories lowered the reader directly into the weedy, half-lit world of Irish town life...