Word: whir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome's most modern newspaper plant, the well-oiled whir of the new Czech presses could not drown the hollow clunk of the empty cash register. L'Unità, the free world's biggest Communist newspaper and second biggest daily in Italy (after Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera), was as deep...
...their collusion. Such a story is Lost Sister, a tale of a captured white child who became a squaw and sacrificed her life to save her half-Indian son from the U.S. Cavalry. Only in the one long story of the collection, The Hanging Tree, does the anticipatory whir of film cameras rise above the true sounds of prairie and frontier town...
...remind himself of Horatio Hornblower. So they finally get the gun to the long shadow of Avila's wall, blast their opening at 1.600 yards, and sliding in on their own blood, overwhelm the hated occupiers. Thus Producer Kramer conquers Napoleon's forces. But somehow the whir of the cameras often seems as loud as the thunderous cannonades. It evidently takes more than dedication, cooperative multitudes and $4,000,000 to shoot history in the face...
...flourish of trumpets, a, bronze bowl flaring with fire, a grey whir of pigeons beating upward above the banners of 68 nations, a parade of athletes swearing allegiance to a sportsman's creed-all this proclaimed last week that the 1956 Olympic Games had begun...
...work on the lawn (and, incidentally, trim off his extra poundage), Bess bought a new power mower. Every time she asked him to use it, Harry would grunt his agreement, do nothing. Bess kept nagging. One Sunday morning she was putting the breakfast dishes away, when she heard the whir of the mower. Harry Truman was mowing the grass-and waving happily at church-going friends...