Word: thumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Star ferry across the harbor from Kowloon to Hong Kong introduces tourists to a popular local pastime: watching Hong Kong girls, wearing cheong-san dresses slit to the thigh, cope with the wind. The first impression of Hong Kong itself is of noise: the staccato of pneumatic drills, thump of pile drivers, cries of hawkers, click of mah-jongg tiles behind shuttered doors, the shouts of coolies dancing under the weight of bamboo shoulder poles. Brass bands sound funeral dirges in the narrow streets; radios whine the cacophony of Cantonese music; the rataplan of $1,000 worth of firecrackers announces...
...kinds of sounds are being recast in the stereo mold, but the stereo fan has learned that he can best demonstrate the pingpong effects with the plink and thump of percussion instruments, and stereo records with "percussion" in the title have a Presley-like pull. Command Records, a stereo pioneer, seldom settles for less than two Ps in titles, such as Persuasive Percussion and Provocative Percussion which between them have sold hundreds of thousands of copies since last September. Companies both big and small are doubling in brass. Among the new releases...
...Republican who inspires a thump of political kinship in the hearts of Virginia Democrats is Arizona's deep-dyed conservative. Senator Barry Goldwater. On a raid into the Old Dominion last week, Goldwater publicly assured Virginians that they could interpret the silence of their own Democratic patriarch, Senator Harry Flood Byrd, 73. about the Kennedy-Johnson ticket as "sufficient instruction'' to vote for Nixon-Lodge. In rebuttal, Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond, sometime Byrdman who has gradually set up a separate camp of his own, spoke up for Jack Kennedy and seized the chance...
...developed so fast that he set a national record of 4:13.2 for the mile in high school. Last year Burleson warmed up by making a national mile record for freshmen (4:06.7), then switched to the 1,500 meters to set an A.A.U. championship record (3:47.5) and thump Russia's best in the dual meet in Philadelphia...