Word: whish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Howth Castle and Environs"-a reference, on one level, to the Liffey, which runs past Adam and Eve's Church and Howth Castle in Dublin, and, on another level, to the beginning of mankind's story. And the reader will be wiser when he reaches the end: "Whish! A gull. Gulls. Far calls. Coming, far! End here Us then. Finn, again...
...Whish! Whish! The starter's flag fluttered, 33 snub-snouted racers gunned past the grandstand-and Jones was in the lead, whirling round and round, averaging a blazing 150 m.p.h. By the 24th lap, he was already lapping stragglers. On the 64th lap, he pulled into the pits, picked up three new tires (the left front tire was still unworn) and a tank of methanol-all in 25.1 sec. But whish! whish!, there went the Lotuses. Short as it was, Jones's pit stop had cost him the lead. After 75 laps, Clark and Gurney were...
...editorial board, for example, asks only that you write three somethings a week, whish is not, you may be sure, much of a strain. To quote Cardinal Richelieu (a sort of 17th Century F.A. Lindermann): "Even the siege of La Rochelle was not much of a strain." In the greater days of Crimson history, when men were men and candidates indescribable, editors demanded two editorials each night. We are milksops now, perhaps, but we have become human beings...