Word: whirrings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the manicured lawns included a relaxed and casually dressed (no necktie) Sam, as well as Bronfman's first wife Ann and their other four children. The presiding judge flew in by helicopter just before the three-minute ceremony, and other helicopters hired by excluded newsmen continued to whir overhead. That prompted one of Bronfman's closest neighbors, former New York Governor Averell Harriman, to remark, "They really ought to be shot down." The bride ignored such interruptions. Wearing a striped chiffon dress and large white hat, she skipped spiritedly across the lawn after the ceremony. The guests...
Like pickle barrels and nickel candy, the ring of grocery-store cash registers may soon belong to nostalgia. In its place will come the soft whir and occasional beeping of electronic equipment. Seven large supermarket chains in the U.S. are quietly testing an automated pricing and check-out system that can "read" coded prices on each item, tot up the bill and do nearly everything but pack the groceries in a bag. Advocates of the system, who describe it as the biggest advance in retailing since the tin can, say that it promises big savings in both shopping time...
Inside the plant, pop music throbs from loudspeakers while a multinational collection of American, West German, British and Japanese machines turn out 6,000,000 zippers a month. The machines whir under the usually watchful eyes of long-haired young men who are paid $66.25 a week and, as one of them puts it, "all the ale we can sink." All men employees wear Y.K.K.'s jackets, which have the company initials proudly displayed on the breast pocket and no fewer than six zippers on the front, the pockets and the cuffs...
...some of these reflexes are as unreliable as they are automatic. One such automatic reflex is the assumption that any hit play of the past can be transformed into a successful musical. The process goes like this: chop the original text into fragments, toss in songs and dances, and whir everything together at the pace of a Waring blender. The resulting concoction blandly eludes taste, flavor or identity...
When in warning. God's archangels whir...