Word: thrums
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...larger picture. No South African white in the stadium wasn't thinking about his country's blacks, no white American wasn't contemplating what we did to the Indians. In the stretch Cathy finally caught the Jamaican, and then strode ahead. The sound was a soundscape: just this immense thrum of noise. Only in the last 20 meters was it clear she would win, and then the sound crescendoed. You were in a waterfall. I think everybody felt, behind their screaming: Well, of course. She had to win this race. It was predestined. It wouldn't be allowed...
...river. The locks are too small to handle its 1,200-ft., 15-barge tows, and so they must be broken in half to go through the lock and then reassembled on the other side. "You want to keep moving all the time," explains Captain Dennis Drury over the thrum of his boat's diesel engine as he slowly pushes more than two acres of barges carrying 20,000 tons of corn into a narrow lock at Winfield, Mo. "But you can sit here for a day and a half waiting on your turn to lock." So the corps wants...