Word: thumpings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...residents sensed that all was not right at the Oxford Apartments, a 49-unit low-rise building on Milwaukee's crime-infested west side. A power saw buzzed at odd hours. The putrid odor of rotting meat flooded the corridors. Occasionally, a tenant would hear a cry or the thump of a falling object on the second floor...
...kick came with a resounding thump and set in motion a profound reversal in national fortunes that became known as Thatcherism. It is also rightly referred to as the Thatcher Revolution because the leader of the Conservative Party was a radical ideologue whose policies turned British society upside down. In recognition of her 11 1/2 years in office and her immense achievements, historians will inevitably rank her alongside Winston Churchill as the greatest of this century's British Prime Ministers...
...people who were escorting the commissar at the time of the accident. They had all been shot. I suggested looking for the driver. Fortunately, he was alive. He told us there hadn't been a serious accident at all, just a dented fender. But he did recall hearing a thump in the back of the covered truck. That was the end of the commissar...
...smile, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney possesses a tongue as sharp as his mind. Soon after he took office last year, he publicly scalded a four-star Air Force general for going behind his back to Congress. Military-service chiefs who oppose Cheney on budget cuts earn a solid verbal thump on the wrist. Last week Cheney fired the highly decorated Air Force chief, General Michael Dugan, for "poor judgment at a sensitive time" in speaking indiscreetly on secret and diplomatically touchy issues relating to the gulf crisis. Dugan was the first member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...orthopedic fractures; we deliver babies; we do it all," explains Peter Moyer, chief of emergency medicine at Boston City Hospital. "I think of us as the urban GP." Tonight Moyer's trauma team is summoned to save a man who has overdosed on heroin. They cut his clothes away, thump on his chest and connect an IV tube, all the while talking to him, trying to keep him awake. "Do you want to die?" resident Stuart Kessler yells at the man, who is feebly pushing the doctors away. The man shakes his head. "Good," says Kessler. "I don't want...