Word: thumpings
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...about 2:45 p.m. Saturday in the Kurdish city of Gerdigo, in northern Iraq, I heard the thump of a mortar firing. It was coming from the battle line held by Ansar al-Islam, a Kurdish fundamentalist Islamic group that's allied with al-Qaeda, with some support from Saddam Hussein. The round landed in front of a forward emplacement held by the Kurdish 61st Uprising Battalion, part of the anti-Saddam Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Moments later, a second round landed even closer. The soldiers scurried into their foxholes, me along with them, before they popped back...
...perfect sound effects for a two-minute segment in the middle of Dreamcatcher. After the discussion about the perfect sound of a bathroom door being broken, it's on to the moment where the worm falls off the main character's body onto the floor. "The thump is major. I've been waiting six months for it," Kasdan says excitedly. The conversation begins to resemble discussions normally reserved for freshman stoners. "Is there any wetness in it?" Kasdan inquires about the splat. "I think it needs a little more weight...
...Zimbabwe have broken the quiet of a balmy January night in Mutare, a normally sleepy spread of jacaranda-shaded streets tucked amid the granite outcrops of the country's lush Eastern Highlands. In Queen's Hall, the revelers dance across a floor sticky with spilled lager, lost in the thump of the drums, the brassy blare of the horns and the hypnotic spell of the lyrics. Listen. What you hear isn't just Mapfumo's rasp through an amplifier. Mapfumo is the amplifier. "He is the voice of the people," says Ephraim, a businessman. Despite the police, who watch, arms...
Sophomore Nicole Corriero said she was sleeping soundly when all of a sudden she heard the bus slam on its breaks. She then heard a thump, looked outside her window and saw a deer squirming in the snow as the bus went...
It’s not a yawn so much as a grumble. It’s actually more of a ‘Grrrrmph’—the thing that comes before you thump the snooze bar into oblivion at 8:30 a.m. and decide that the Science Center is too far away for Chem lecture today...