Word: whirly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring came with all the familiar sights and sounds of peaceful generations. The ten acres of White House lawn turned green overnight; gaspowered, rubber-tired lawn mowers began to whir over the sward's long roll, barbering the Kentucky bluegrass to the regulation two inches. A man painted the tennis-court backstop; other men with shears trimmed the California privet hedges in pyramid style...
Myadestes, less embarrassed, opened its beak and began to warble to a whir of clockwork which sounded like distant thunder. All day, weekdays and Sundays, with an audience or without, the obliging bird repeated its performance every hour on the hour...
...last ten years the growling comments and resonant tones of Radiorator Fletcher Wiley have become as familiar to the ears of Southern California housewives as the hiss of boiling water or the whir of the carpet sweeper. Five days a week he has soothed them with friendly advice about household problems, stormed angrily against frauds on the market, chatted lightly on a variety of subjects ranging from the history of cinnamon to modern marriage...