Word: swish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unexpected. The opening act sets the tone for the rest of the show: A young man, wearing a scruffy work shirt and jeans splattered with paint, enters from the wings, pushing a large broom before him across the dusty floor. Evidently intrigued by the noises made by the rhythmic swish of the broom's bristles against the floor, he begins to experiment with its tempo and pressure, resulting in swishes and taps of varying pitch and loudness...
...gangsters for the benefit of the TV cameras. "The gang people were big," said Cuomo. "This was not going to be much of a contest. So Ron took the ball, and with the cameras rolling, he set up at half court and sent a single shot at the hoop." Swish. The gangsters cheered. Ron Brown turned and walked away. Game over...
Thus in the concrete courtyard outside the cafeteria at St. Aloysius Gonzaga--before classes, between classes, in any weather, in the demon energy of our hormones--we played basketball. A boy would launch a set shot from the outside that rose steeply and dropped like a mortar shell. Swish! Another teenage pregnancy averted...
...Swish. Cheers. Swish. More cheers...
...heart with two right atria, John Paul will undergo heart surgery next month, and his parents cannot be sure how many birthdays remain. The boy's heart, Cisneros reflects, does not even sound like a normal heart. "Most human hearts go ker-thump, ker-thump," he says. "His goes swish, swish, swish...