Word: whirling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another corner of the room, smaller mixers five and six feet high whirl wire beaters the size of a man's head in bowls of frosting or small lots of dough. All about the room stand frames filled with trays of bread, pies, and a thousand different kinds of cookies...
...Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen ("Snatch"). They strolled to Sarah's table for a tête-à-tête that was unprecedented because it was public. The fascinated crowds then saw them steal two young women from a table of young British and U.S. diplomats and whirl happily and jovially around the dance floor...
Labelled "Cultural and Social" the final set of questions attempt to take a cross section of the average undergraduate social whirl. Pre-poll predictions indicate that the question "do you think the Lampoon is funny?" will prove to be the most embarassing...
...would yield at least 15 billion dollars. The bill provides for approximately $6,800,000,000, not even half what the fiscal experts, who must finance the war, demanded. Left untouched by taxation or what the public normally could spend on consumers goods are 18 billion dollars threatening to whirl the country into an inflationary spiral. It was part of this amount that the treasury hoped to get, or discourage from exchange with its ill-fated spendings-tax. And lastly, the largest revenue groups, the upper two-thirds income brackets, have not been taxed to their capacity. But a married...
...night vibrated with the whirl of wings as our planes took to the skies to attack the Japanese air and sea raiders. Enemy bombs bracketed our encampment and a few were killed and several injured. The Marines, cursing "Tojo" tumbled from their bedrolls to their foxholes and then back to bed again. The moon broke hazily through the scudding clouds and made splotches of pale light beneath the palm and ironwood trees. It was a typical night on Guadalcanal...