Word: whanging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flying Saucers have been reported over China, but we have been troubled by Flying Thudwunks-or, as the Chinese call them, Celestial Whang-bongs. Our one-eyed wash coolie, Yeh, sighted an unusual bright green Thudwunk two evenings ago whizzing across the thatched roofs of the native village next door to our house on Columbia Road-or, as the Chinese call it, Pan-yu Lu-and has become, as a result, a neighborhood hero...
...truth is in plain old Texas language that the American people finally, and definitely, have their bellies full of this New Deal Communist conglomeration and all their whang-brained fanatical fancies...
...plastic, 70% cellulose with a resin binder, is made of soybeans, wheat, cotton, hides, plus a few imported, now hard-to-get ingredients (cork, rubber, tung oil, ramie-formerly used to wrap Egyptian mummies). Last fall Boyer turned out a few panels, had his lanky boss whang at them harmlessly with an ax, was overjoyed when Ford gave him the go-ahead for a complete...
...with cool heels, of an engineer named Alex Taub. A British-American, a Chevrolet man who went to work for Vauxhall Motors Ltd. (the General Motors in Britain), Mr. Taub returned to the U.S. last December with a mission and three specimens of a whang-dinging good British aircraft engine. The mission: to persuade the U.S. to manufacture the engines in quantity. The engine: Napier's 24-cylinder, 50-horsepower, inline, liquid-cooled Sabre (TIME...
...such power as this was really being assembled in Egypt, it would be inexcusable to let it complete preparations for attack and get rolling. The only answer could be an anticipatory attack-not just a patrol, not just a raid, but a real whang. If it failed, the German preparations for attack would at least have been hampered. If it succeeded, Winston Churchill and all his people would have much to be thankful...