Word: whining
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...porpoise, Presley came abumping onscreen, wearing boots and a tuxedo, his double-folded forelock bobbing above his head like a Vaseline halo. As he sang Fame and Fortune and Stuck on You, his feet tapped, his hands clapped, and his hips wrestled with each other. The voice was ordinary whine, on the point of becoming vinegar...
...that a radio signal had started from the radio telescope and was speeding across space at light's speed (186,300 m.p.sec.) toward U.S. sun satellite Pioneer V. 1,040,000 miles away. About 25 seconds later, Pioneer V's radio answer sounded as a wavering whine in Bill Young's trailer...
...reliables there are also new wrinkles, e.g., toy guns this year have built-in whine and ricochet sounds. For kids who have almost everything, Dallas' Neiman-Marcus has a $2,200 gas-engine-powered passenger train...
...last week's anniversary parade, 100 dark green tanks and 144 motorized artillery pieces clanked onto the broad square before Mao and Khrushchev. The pavement rang to the cadenced tread of 100,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen, and nine massive columns of militiamen. From overhead came the whine and rumble of 155 Chinese-made jet bombers and fighters. The procession ended, heavy with menace, as 700,000 workers marched by, 100 abreast, shouting, "Liberate Taiwan...
...vehicle (tank, jeep or train) twelve miles away is easy to identify. A tank sounds very much like the clanking of its tracks. A wheeled vehicle makes a whine that increases in pitch as its speed increases. A man walking toward the radar sounds like "ump-ump-ump,"-each "ump" being Tipsy's reaction to the relatively fast movement of his legs as he takes a step. A woman's skirt has no effect, but she moves her arms differently and swings her hips more, so the radar sound that comes from her has more frills, lacking...