Word: whanging
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...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...
Norwegian freighter Solviken, seeking to enter Singapore harbor. She headed for a mine field. Whang went a warning shot from a shore battery across her bows, out came a patrol ship to lead Solviken into port...
...complex that the adjustment of the machine now receives more attention than the design of the machine itself, and the problems of the society of individuals are obscuring those of the society as a unit whole. This is perhaps the final development of the romantic conception of humanitarianism. WHANG...