Word: thwack
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Chop, chop. Thwack. Zing. Chonk...
...asked the students to sit down while we waited. I wanted to show the police that we were organized and mature, that this was not a wild demonstration." With the rustle of dresses and the thwack of books hitting asphalt, they...
...proved deft and effective in managing the balance-of-payments crisis that nearly shipwrecked the pound. Tough as any Tory, he slapped higher taxes and fees on those workingman staples toddy, tobacco and the telly, and the rank and file scarcely noticed, so busy were they applauding his simultaneous thwack on the expense-account set. Abroad, Wilson has managed to get on agreeably with the leaders of France and West Germany-no easy feat, particularly in Paris. Despite anguished cries from the pacifist left of his own party, Wilson has supported the U.S. in Viet Nam and made plain...
Shuffle forward; shuffle back; turn, bend and stomp, repeated time after time in endless succession, each third beat of the foot being accentuated in unison by the thwack of cupped palms brought sharp upon the curve of naked thighs...
However they smelled. Manhattan's papers returned last week after their 114-day blackout with a solid, 6,500,000-copy thwack!-720,000 above their prestrike circulation. And they went fast, although newsdealers later bundled up and returned thousands on thousands of copies. Exulted Mirror Managing Editor Selig Adler: "We sold more papers than when Marilyn Monroe died...