Word: chuffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What's in a Chuff...
...Chuff-chuff-chuff-chuff-chuff...
These June nights, when the drawn-out whistle of the steam engine streaking across Kansas sets the farmer's dog a-barking, or when valley dwellers hear her coming round the mountain with brakes on after the two-engined chuff up the Continental Divide, like as not the long string of cars will be sleepers-Pullmans full of soldiers, destination and route secret...
...throaty chuff of the surface Diesels ceased, and the O-9, along with the O-8 and O10 sank into the sea for a deep-water dive. They were built to withstand water pressures down to 250 feet; and off the Isles of Shoals, 15 miles southeast of Portsmouth, they had nearly twice that depth to operate...