Word: whoomp
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...purple ink. The helicopter slams into the rock "with a grinding scream, the blades crumple back like spaghetti, still twisting in a slow-motion convulsion of shrieking metal. Like a great dying bird, it seems to keel over in a last agony, twisting downward in a wrenching, moaning death. Whoomp...
...darkened classroom, a group of G.I.s peered blindly around trying to identify mysterious sounds, then put on infrared glasses and saw a jet plane overhead, a Jeep picking up a wounded man, an enemy infiltrator creeping toward them. In another room a model missile aircompressor system went whoomp, shooting a miniature missile ceilingward. In a third, a miniature carbon-dioxide plant emitted a cloud of gas and strewed bits of Dry Ice on the floor. The gadgets are just a few of the ingenious devices that Colonel Frank J. Polich has built to help 10,000 soldiers each year understand...
...huge fireball seven miles away (see NEWS IN PICTURES). It was bright red, and churning. Big Brother kept up a calm, steady patter, explaining what was happening. The blast wave rustled by. One paratrooper confusedly stood up too soon. The returning wave knocked him flat. A deep, sharp "whoomp" echoed and rumbled off the mountain walls...