Word: thumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threat to rayon is the slow gain of nylon in auto tires, which account for a fourth of rayon's market. The automakers all use rayon in their tires because nylon tires thump after standing for a period, leading drivers to believe that something is wrong with the car when they start rolling. But the nylon industry is trying to work out the thump, and the eight U.S. rayon makers (biggest: American Viscose) do not expect to hold off nylon cord forever...
...book goes on. Thump, thump, thump...
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs to breakfast, thump, thump, thump. Sometimes Winnie-the-Pooh tells him a story when he comes downstairs. This morning...
...high in the air. He beats his massive chest with both hands, so loud that the drumming can be heard a mile away. While drumming, he kicks one leg in the air and runs sideways, slaps at vegetation and tears branches off trees. The final act is a loud thump on the ground with the palm of his massive hand...
...caper-probably because he is willing to work for peanuts. Everything that can possibly go wrong, does. At one point, while Capannelle keeps an eye peeled for the polizia, another member of the gang steals a parked car, drives exactly eleven inches, feels a mighty thump, realizes red-faced that one rear wheel is gone-the car was standing on a jack. In the end, Capannelle & Co. cop the swag, a matter of 80 million lire ($130,000), but only by dumb luck. They stow it in a suitcase and the suitcase in a baggage room. The check-"Hey!" hollers...