Word: thumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine loess dust on the rutted dirt road from Suchow to the front, 25 miles to the east, was churned by our jeep into a long brown cloud which hung in the still air. We could hear the distant thump of artillery and the crunch of aerial bombs. Ahead and in some hills to the south, puffs of white billowed where shells and bombs found targets. In a village which had been retaken from the Communists the day before, an old peasant woman squatted at a roadside pond unconcernedly whacking at her laundry with a wooden paddle. Behind...
...magic of Football is in the air again this autumn, and although a miserable few scorn it, none deny that it exists. When the gates of Soldiers Field swing open this afternoon, and the crowd of Crimson partisans sweeps forward eagerly, all true Harvard pulses will begin to thump, and loyal throats will tighten. There will be alert and anxious clusters around television sets in local bars, and here and there, in isolated rooms, the grinds will tune in softly to catch the half-time score. This gentle madness will endure until the heavy snows have covered the last eleat...
...Allen's Alley, satchel-eyed Fred Allen has dispossessed two tenants: Senator Claghorn and Ajax Cassidy. Cassidy is gone for good, but the Senator will tub-thump occasionally during the election campaign. The vacancies have been let to a mysterious Russian, Sergei Strogonoff, and to a new rhyming character reminiscent of an old Alley resident, Falstaff Openshaw. Mrs. Nussbaum and Titus Moody have renewed their leases...
...Thump...
Waku-waku [thump-thump...