Word: swishness
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...keen little Japanese general, trim if tubby, bustled about Hongkong last week, the confident swish of his great-coat followed by hate-glinting Chinese eyes...
...rape scene which follows is probably the loudest in history, an uproar of brasses, tympani, cymbals. Shostakovich again uses a waltz, this time to satirize the prowling father-in-law who catches Sergei as he climbs out the window. In the flogging scene the audience could fairly hear the swish of the whip. When the father-in-law lay dying, Soviet scorn of the church was equally apparent. The priest who performed the perfunctory rites sang a song which sounded like a rowdy equivalent of "Hail. Hail, the Gang's All Here!" Musicians in last week's audience...
...blessing of greater unity under her Nanking Government than seemed remotely possible even three years ago. Much to the Government's regret last week that Great Unifier, Colonel Shu Pei-kun, commander of Nan-chang air base, proved to have embezzled $1,000,000 Mex. ($360,000). Swish! - the broad sword of a Chinese executioner cut off Shu's head...
...down the aisle, parted the green baize curtains, popped a package of papers on the sleeper. The man in the berth rose up, seized what had struck him, hurled it at the intruder. The man in the aisle picked it up, tossed it back into the berth once more. Swish, the package came sailing out of the berth a second time. The other man retrieved it, laid it back on the Pullman passenger, walked away...
...across the U. S. Suppose such a cartridge were fired in New York as starting signal for a Westbound airplane. Three hours and 20 min. later the noise of the explosion would echo up San Francisco's Market Street and just 76 minutes after that the airplane would swish down upon San Francisco Bay, at a landing speed of 103 m. p. h. It would, that is. if Engineer John Stack knows how to use a wind tunnel and a slide rule...