Word: thumpings
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...Thursday, the Tigers, previously blanked twice by Tony Hoekstra, jumped on him for eight runs in the second to thump the Browns, 10 to 5, and move into the finals against Ensign Bill Cousins' aggregation Tuesday...
They Die Quietly. "First thing that happens to the Americans when they get into the line is that they stop talking. You notice how the conversational silence deepens as you pass the thump of artillery and approach the chatter of machine guns...
From day to day Europe could be certain of only one thing: the cruel, relentless hammering of the air preparation for The Day. The Continent's target cities groaned under the endless thump of bombs...
...show the absolute necessity for our Party, if it wishes to get its policies carried out, to gain the support of great numbers outside its own ranks. . . . This will not be done by reiterating the platitudes of the Party meeting hall. ... It is not enough to get up and thump the table and talk about the socialization of all the means of production, distribution and exchange. I have done my share of that in my time; you could always count on a cheer of some sort. But it doesn't begin to get near the real problem...
...sake of expectant posterity, especially that Soc. major of 2043 writing his thesis on those quaint old days when, even during a war, people had time to sit solemnly around listening to men twang cat-gut, blow straws, and thump on pigskin, it might be well to take leave of my sporadic incumbency of this post by letting off a little steam re music criticism and the state of music in general...