Word: thumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stunts in Drottkvaet. With his alliterative, hit-and-thump verse Auden has returned to the earliest tradition of English poetry-Anglo-Saxon-for a terseness and toughness that his own poems have lacked since the '30s. Incidental stunts include a dream song in the style of Finnegans Wake and an eight-line Drottkvaet, a complex Scandinavian verse form. But The Age of Anxiety is the best knit of Auden's longer works; his Bright Ideas, which have always had a way of stealing the show, this time wait for their cues. For the first time, too, Auden...
...Republican Congress was about to thump on to his desk the long-awaited tax and labor bills (see The Congress). The President's decision whether to sign or veto would have a profound effect on the nation's economic and social future-and on Harry Truman's own political fortunes...
...band tramped down the Salarian Way, along which Romans had once marched to capture the Sabine women and found ancient Rome, the grim thump of drums woke Adolfo Boscaini. Farmer Boscaini kept 200 milk cows, 600 sheep on 220 hectares (about 490 acres). His barns were freshly painted. So was his tractor, ready for autumn ploughing. His cowsheds smelt only of sour-sweet silage...
Churchill Downs in the pre-Derby dawn is a heady place. Drifting wood smoke, dampened by morning dew, cuts the sharp, ammoniac smell of the stables. From the tarns, where skittish thoroughbreds are breakfasting, comes the metallic clank of feed tubs, or an occasional hoof thump. Sleepy-eyed grooms and exercise boys, clutching their mugs of coffee, shuffle through the shadows...
...first, it was as awkward as a righthander trying to pitch lefthanded. The trick was to thump the board hard enough with his 135 lbs. to get up high in the air. His weak leg limited him to an hour and a half's practice a day; he used to practice three hours...