Word: whirred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, with a clash of cymbals from the Army band and whir of limousine motors, Pandit Nehru was whirled off for the start of his three-week "voyage of discovery of the mind and heart of America...
...below the floor of the cathedral, surrounded by scattered gold coins of the period when Peter died. Since their discovery, Reporter Cianfarra was told, the bones have been guarded by the Pope himself, in the private chapel next to his study. As the Italian press took off with a whir of speculation, the Vatican was significantly careful neither to confirm nor deny the New York Times story. Summarizing an article titled "Premature News and Confident Awaiting" in Quotidiano, official newspaper of Catholic Action, the Vatican radio reminded listeners: "It is well to observe that in an important and delicate matter...
Every day at noon, the shmooze begins. All over Manhattan's grimy Garment Center, in its warrens of disheveled one-room "shops" crammed into loft buildings and slatternly tenements, the sharp whir of sewing machines stops. Workers and bosses pour onto the sidewalk and gather in clots at the curb under the glowering sun. Above the bray of automobile horns, hunched, rumpled men shout in Yiddish, Italian and English, leaning against the clogged trucks, stepping out of the way of rattling racks of dresses without missing a verb or a gesture...
...drafty halls of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace echoed last week with the whir of a thousand mechanical monsters, infernally clever and incredibly dexterous. It was the 40th National Business Show, where the booming U.S. business-machine industry proudly exhibited its newest laborsaving, cost-cutting gizmos...
...Harry Truman wanted was a back porch-a cool place where he could sit of an evening, as he used to back in Independence, listening to the whir of the sprinkler on the lawn and the sound of neighbors' voices coming clear through the summer air. He consulted an architect; together, they found just the place for it. It would be inconspicuously tucked away behind the pillars of the White House's south portico, at the second-floor level. The plans were drawn, the money ($15,000) set aside from White House maintenance funds. Then the storm broke...