Word: vrooming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through torsos to dresses and coats with overstuffed "pagoda" shoulders and gold kimono jackets worn over tight silk pants. The designer, who has spent four years plotting the Cardinization of Cathay, makes abundant use of the country's magnificent silks and cashmeres but yields nothing to Maonotony. "Vroom!" he cries. "It's the shock that will be interesting. Why should I copy Mao collars when what they want is dresses from Paris? The Chinese have lost their suspicion, and dream of giving their clothes a Western image that will set China at the level of other nations...
...Vroom! ... Aargh! ... Eeesh! ... Careening out of a 180° hairpin bend, engine screaming at 6,800 r.p.m. and rear wheels adrift, the smoking blue racing machine slides perilously close to the curve, then barrels into a straightaway. "C'mon now," the driver growls through gritted teeth. "Punch that pedal! Now feather the gas! Hug that curve like your darlin...
...future will not be able to vroom away from a stop light with today's panache. Most GM cars now accelerate from a dead stop to 60 m.p.h. in 11 to 14 seconds; the report implies that by 1985 most will take 15 seconds or more. GM fears that the loss in performance, small though it may seem, will discourage buyers...
...feeling. He told me that nobody had answered his knock on the front door, so he started around the house. On the side of the house in the driveway was an old Studebaker up on blocks, no wheels, two doors missing. Inside at the wheel was the father, going "vroom, vroom," beside him the mother and the youngest child, in the back seat the other four kids. Out for an afternoon drive...
...tiny upstate New York town of Watkins Glen last week, the sound of rock music was heard no more. The previous weekend's massive Summer Jam was over, and in its wake were other sounds. The vroom of departing campers, jalopies and motorcycles as the last of 600,000 pop fans set out along roads which for the first time in nearly a week were not clogged with traffic. The crunching of garbage compacters at work on tons of litter from the auto-race-track festival site. The echo of unanimous voices raised at the Schuyler County legislature...