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Word: swoosh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Patty Shinkwin, Bentley's leading scorer with 15 points, Maureen DeLuke and Shana Hall matched the visitors swoosh for swoosh for send the game into the second extra five-minute period...

Author: By Jonathan J.ledecky, | Title: Bentley Bests Women in Cliffhanger | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Comic strip is one of the terms critics have used for the Ken Kesey counter-culture novel that inspired One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest. Big Nurse, Billy Bibbet, Randell McMurphy--zip, zam, zowee-am, swoosh, but with a heavy psycho-social punch packed behind it all. Yet the first shots of Milos Forman's movie--grainy, solemn, self-consciously non-colorful--make clear that this Cuckoo will not foist off a super-super allegory of a nut-fram, but a real Oregon mental hospital, in all its disturbing bleakness and isolation. This interpretive risk pays off, and, except...

Author: By Alyson Dewitt, | Title: FILM | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

...Bachelor Bobby does not have time for dating. He once said that when God gets ready, he will drop a girl in his lap. Most often, he rises late in a day that almost invariably ends with chess, chess, chess until dawn. Then he dozes off to the soothing swoosh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle of the Brains | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

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