The crack of machine gunfire competes with the steady boom of mortars as men hurry in and out the building ferrying food and ammunition to their comrades inside.
Fighting hits Ukraine's EU ambitions - by Tom Burridge, BBC News, Donetsk: As the leaders met in Kiev, we could hear the steady boom of shelling in a bombed-out neighbourhood, on the edge of Donetsk.
The ringing chords, the jaunty minor-key-ballade melodies, the peculiar heavy, heartbreak vibrato, the broken-icicle chromatic runs up and down the fretboard, all played against the steady boom-chick, boom-chick of the cast-iron guitar chords: the cherished Django sound is there, and something of the feeling, too.
A crew of more than 20 swirled around the site in Hackensack, tweaking lights, steadying boom mics.
He unfurled the sail and steadied the boom.
Still, Mr. Linesh is confident that business will hold steady, if not boom.
Virtually unchanged since the 1990s, trance is basically a gargantuan boom-chicka-boom with a steady kick-drum on every beat, and it's supremely adaptable: euphoric, martial, perky, ominous, indefatigable.
Best of all, it happened to be the day of the annual Chinese dragon boat races, with 20 oars flailing away on each canoe and a drum booming a steady cadence.
In the previous tech booms, a steady stream of top-notch technical graduates from other countries helped fill the recruiting needs of startups flush with VC money.
BEHIND THE NEWS Harlem benefited greatly during the economic boom and the steady decline in crime in New York since the 1990s.
Steady growth has turned to boom, and in 2001 construction output grew by 3.5%, faster than the economy generally for the first time since 1989.
