Word: whoom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battlefield where vultures circle overhead and the smell of panic is stronger than the stench of the unswept, palm-fringed boulevards. The shops are barred, the restaurants deserted. Hour after hour, day and night, the tomblike hush is broken only by the distant crump of exploding mortar shells, the whoom of bazookas, the crack of anti-aircraft cannon, and the short, chattering bursts of machine guns...
...head explodes. The still twitching saurian is hauled aboard, and one of Nadine Gordimer's hearty women, a guest on the expedition, gives tongue. "Oh, my God!" she cries. "Wasn't that wonderful? Did you ever see anything like it! Those eyes! Staring at you! Crash-Whoom-Finished...
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