Word: thunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...along with its opponent for three-fourths of a game on the strength of a pesky defense and decent transition game, the team will suddenly come to an abrupt stop. Its eyes will get big. Its heart will pound. Its nostrils will flair. Its neck will stiffen. And then: thunk...
Tuesday night the Crimson was leading Holy Cross by 11 points with 10:19 left. The Crusaders applied a frenetic full court press. The Crimson committed eight turnovers in the next four minutes. Thunk...
...trailing a strong Lehigh team by only two at Briggs Cage with 9:49 left. The Engineers stepped up their intensity a notch. The Crimson missed two shots and committed two turnovers in the next two minutes, and was charged with 10 fouls for the rest of the game. Thunk...
...Then: thunk...
...wreckage of Wolcott's chopper, pilot Dan Jollota was struggling to hold his aircraft steady while 15 Rangers "fast-roped" to the ground by sliding down a 40-ft. line at a rate only slightly more controlled than a free fall. In the cockpit, Jollota could hear the thunk-thunk-thunk of his rotors punctuated by the deadly whoosh of rocket-propelled grenades. With two Rangers still on the ropes, the chopper took a direct hit that chewed holes in a main rotor blade. The steel-nerved pilot bit off the impulse to flee. "It was remarkable," said a crewman...