Word: swooshing
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...remember back to the early 1970s when my dad came home one day carrying a pair of red shoes with a white swoosh on the side. Nothing unusual there, I thought...
...target, fall back a little and make piles of money for their inventors. Nike of Beaverton, Ore., first hit it big manufacturing running shoes (1982 footwear sales: $580 million). In 1980 the company got into running apparel, and sales of shorts and shirts bearing the company's famous "swoosh" mark have sprinted from $8 million to a projected $115 million this year...
...even as the statistics and footage of war receded in a blur of swoosh stripes, words began to sprout. A poem, a play, a novel, a memoir might recall what most citizens wished to forget. Some could not. Viet Nam veterans grew older, had children and, as if by some compulsion to pass on their stories, began to talk. In the spring of 1981 the "livingroom war" shows signs of becoming the tape-recorder...
...Swoosh! It 's a Railgun
...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...