He was pounding his hand on the table and saying that he needed more troops.

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"Send a message not just to Mr. Trump ... but to others like him, " he said pounding his hand on a podium.

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"Send a message not just to Mr. Trump but to tell others like him, " he said pounding his hand on a podium.

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"I, in 10 years in his power there, never asked Tony Blair for any favors and never received any, " Murdoch said in April, pounding his hand on the table for emphasis.

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Even in 1993, Charles still used only a plug-in calculator circa 1970, with blue keys the size of dimes, very rugged keys, which was indeed fortunate given the pounding he would give it when reproducing calculations by hand that some state-of-the-art mainframe, the pride of IBM and the size of a refrigerator, had no doubt taken many minutes to complete in some sealed room.

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Will we be pounding on the same doors instead of expanding our universe because the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing?

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"Sputnik, " on the other hand, is about power, but Mr. Martens lets the guitars handle the pounding while he plays little figures that add color and intrigue.

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Cut to Lang Lang, in his red tuxedo, pounding away at the piano, head thrown back, lifting his right hand in a gesture of ecstasy, while the masses applaud.

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Benevento's assertive interpretation features plenty of bluesy grace notes in his right-hand flights, an unexpected touch of dissonance in the chords, a big build-up aided by the pounding drummer and a surprise appearance by a scatting vocal chorus, as well as a churchy slowdown at the end full of tremolos, stutters and arpeggios.

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