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...Extravert on percussion instruments: Often required to wait an entire concert just to ping the triangle or thump the bass drum, he develops anxieties. When his moment comes, he flails away with gusto, confident that every eye is upon him. As proprietor of the orchestra's "kitchen," he is belittled because of the limited range of his instruments, envied because he can bang all his frustrations away...
...300th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, and the city rocked last week to the thump of gun salutes and fireworks bursting over the Thames. In the great conference room of Marlborough House, however, it was not only the city of London that appeared to be burning but the entire Commonwealth of Nations...
...show can be spectacular. Every night, more than 1,000 rounds of heavy artillery thump into the paddies and jungles surrounding Saigon to discourage Viet Cong activity. Their explosions light up the sky and shake the city. Five miles from the downtown Caravelle Hotel, the air buzzes with "lightning bugs" -helicopters fitted out with powerful spotlights to pick out Charlie-and the soft sizzle of parachute flares. Rocket-bearing choppers and DC-3s bristling with rapid-fire miniguns patrol the perimeter, waiting to pounce...
...automakers are not fond of it. Only 6% of the nation's new cars carry nylon tires as original equipment, though 80% of the tires sold in the replacement market are nylon. Detroit's resistance derives largely from the fact that nylon tires tend to make a thumping noise for the first few blocks or miles of a ride-and auto dealers can have a difficult time convincing customers that the thump comes not from the car but the tire. The noise is an embarrassing result of nylon's tendency to "flat spot," that is, to flatten...
...regime to leave Kampala, appealed to Secretary-General U Thant for United Nations intervention to avert "calamity at the eleventh hour." Obote immediately accused the King of high treason, surrounded the palace with troops. Then from the top of Mengo Hill came a sound seldom heard: the deep, buckskin thump of the royal war drums summoning Buganda's 2,000,000 subjects to rise to defend their King...