Word: thumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ALSC has held two conferences of its own, where some of its 2,000 members heard papers on Dante and Dickens and reassured one another that it was still possible to discuss Auden's poetry without listening everywhere for the thump of his libido. They also try to offer an alternative job network for like-minded young Ph.D.s frustrated by the MLA job mart. "If young people didn't speak the language of race, gender and class studies, they couldn't get jobs," insists Professor Emeritus John Ellis of the University of California at Santa Cruz, an ALSC founder...
...that let a computer user totally customize his or her daily supply of information: "I'll take the Washington headlines, please, plus the health news, N.F.L. scores, updates on AT&T's stock price--and anything on Madonna." The Daily Me has arrived on our doorstep, not with a thump but with a polite mechanical chime...
...erupted when military policemen announced that it was about to be closed. Somehow our truck was allowed to pass, but even as we inched across the bridge, Wehrmacht sappers were attaching charges to its stone arches, and moments after we reached the other side, we heard the dull explosive thump that indicated the span had been blown. A few minutes later and we would have been blocked on the other shore...
DeNoble and Mele set up an experiment in which rats could administer - nicotine to themselves by pressing one of two levers. DeNoble said rats would thump the bar as often as 90 times in 12 hours to get the nicotine, vs. just 12 times a day for a saline solution. Even more telling, the researchers found that for nicotine combined with acetaldehyde, a product of burning cigarettes, the rats would press 500 times in 12 hours as opposed to 120 times in 12 hours for nicotine alone. "Our results demonstrated for the first time that nicotine shared common characteristics with...
...Sade's perversions sound unconvincing. He lacks the intensity and the wicked gleam in his eye necessary to persuade us he believes in the ideology of pain he espouses. There is a moment of redemption, however, when, shirtless, he subjects himself to a beating while the prisoners thump the floor methodically in a blood-thirsty crescendo. Then, physically, we feel his lust for pain...