Newsome still doesn't thump his chest -- you know, even though he is a great general manager.

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Hughton guided the Magpies to the Championship title in May and saw his side thump Aston Villa 6-0 and local rivals Sunderland 5-1 before masterminding a 1-0 win at Arsenal.

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It has kicked in to action twice -- and you get quite a thump when it happens.

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They found their early-season form in time to thump the Bruins.

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The Sandusky scandal landed with an icky thump in November, the long-buried secrets sliming the reputation of Penn State's football program and an idyllic spot proud to call itself Happy Valley.

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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.

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As I sat in the Governor's office for a shura, a mini-conference of tribal elders, I heard a distant thump.

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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.

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The T-shirt gun had a new CO2 canister that blasted away with a healthy thump.

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He recommended we thump the taps, so while my husband and I went upstairs to try this, my three-year-old son ran for a pee into the marble-clad bathroom whose door opens directly onto the shower floor.

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