It has kicked in to action twice -- and you get quite a thump when it happens.
Kathy woke to a thump upstairs, coming from one of the kids' rooms.
Then, with a thump of such suddenness that for a moment it might have been taken for a warning of emergency or disaster, music again burst from the Star night club.
But the war seems more distant, the bombing and shelling an occasional interruption rather than a constant thump, gripping the stomach in a permanent spasm of fear.
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The T-shirt gun had a new CO2 canister that blasted away with a healthy thump.
He claimed to remember a "thump in the car" and that his wing mirror was pushed in.
But a hearty thump from distance from Drogba signalled the first spell of sustained pressure from the Blues.
Then again, disgruntled Republicans in the House could send it crashing to the ground, with a sickening thump.
Ismaila starts to smile, and soon he is playing with his brothers: He gives his cousin a playful thump.
As I sat in the Governor's office for a shura, a mini-conference of tribal elders, I heard a distant thump.
His speech meandered through a checklist of old-school Democratic mantras (funding social programs, ending discrimination) before it arrived on Gore's doorstep with a deafening thump.
Instead it was Flintoff who applied the coup de grace with a solid thump straight back down the ground over the ropes off Harris, to give England heart going into the one-day matches that begin with a Twenty20 international on 20 August.
James Milner had a half-chance at the far post from another Wright-Phillips before Lucio found space to thump a shot which beat Foster and crashed against the post.
Four minutes after the restart Eduardo beat three men before pulling the ball back for Rosicky to thump a shot against the post.
Philadelphia will come to the Garden Sunday holding first place in the division, and they, too, will be eager to thump a team that became an instant darling.
The building collapsed Friday with a "huge whoosh and then thump, " said Ali Jawad Bhimani, a hotel owner who lives near the building in Dar es Salaam's normally bustling Kariakoo central business district.
He could not make out the individual footfalls, the great velvet paws landing one in front of the other, only the over-all sound of it, a soft, travelling thump.
Bolton, by contrast, were focused on their task and punished some slack defending when Taylor rose unchallenged to thump home a header from Steinsson's excellent delivery out on the right touchline.
Gaga has not abandoned the core element of her craft the steady thump of Euro disco, a beat accessible to people who are older than the misfit club kids who find religion at her live shows.
Scott rose in a crowded penalty area after 83 minutes to thump home John Melligan's pinpoint corner for his first goal for the club.
Morkel's first two overs went for 24 and Charl Langeveldt fared little better as Kieswetter stepped down the pitch to thump him over extra cover for a mighty six before moving across to sweep from off stump for four.
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Like when a plane lands, it doesn't just thump down onto the ground.
But if you're, you know, just about a kilometer or a half a mile away, you just kind of hear this thump.
Every crash and thump of Emily Schaller's drumsticks is a medical victory.
He stepped across his stumps to thump one early boundary off Ishant Sharma, but skied a catch as he attempted a repeat.
Against all predictions they progressed to the last four at the expense of England and France, defeated Holland on penalties and went on to thump Germany 2-0 in the final - not a bad run for the whipping boys.
Newsome still doesn't thump his chest -- you know, even though he is a great general manager.
He didn't just thump his chest to say he had arrived, because he was such a great player.
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