Word: whining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decade that began with the rumble of German Panzer divisions and the whine of Stuka dive bombers came to an end last week with a few words in Washington. It was just ten years after the invasion of Poland, four years after the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, and an appropriate occasion for summing up-the kind that President Harry Truman rarely lets slip by unnoticed...
High Speed. The air was filled with an electric whine. On the white-sheeted table, the patient could hear nothing else. He could see nothing except the grey, perforated wallboard beyond his feet. But coursing through his neck, in invisible bursts 180 times a second, was a beam of X rays whipped up by the 25 million volts to a speed almost exactly equal to that of light. The beam was aimed at the center of the cancer...
...death chair. A moth fluttered about it. Sheridan's weak blue eyes followed the moth intently as it circled the light. Then the mask came down over his face, guards deftly snapped the electrodes on his arms and legs, and the dynamo started up with a low whine. At 11:11 p.m. the prison physician put his stethoscope to Sheridan's chest. "This man is dead," he said in a flat voice...
...pretty tense and exciting, according to Hermann, to take off on rides amidst poker games and fire whistles. The firemen's polo is located in the middle of the sax section and the practices are broken once or twice nightly by the whine of the emergency whistle and the tumbling of drivers and hosemen down the hole and out to their engines...
Eagerly the crowd closed in on the flag, tore pieces from it. Suddenly the whine of a racing jeep motor sent the people scurrying. Soviet soldiers had finally looked around just in time to see the flag coming down. Their jeep roared up to the gate, swung sharply around to face the crowd from Soviet territory. Five Russian soldiers swung their Tommy guns menacingly; three shots were fired...