Word: whooshes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whoosh! Next day, U.S. Communists got around to paying their tribute to Little Father Lenin at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Climax of the memorial rally was unquestionably a song (see cut). The words were by C.I.O. Organizer Vern Partlow, music (a prolonged monotone) by leftist, talented Earl Robinson (Ballad for Americans, Porterhouse Lucy). Robinson rendered it in person, strumming his guitar and crooning close to the party line...
...Dzingle sounded every inch a toolmaker; Einstein plowed shyly and awkwardly through his lines. Only one of the 21-man panel was unconcerned. Said 85-year-old Samuel Gould: "I've seen every thing there is to see. ... If an atomic bomb were to fall right now and WHOOSH - wipe out the whole world, it would leave me completely indifferent...
...bolide is the only noisy type of meteor.* It is said to move at a rate of five to 20 miles a second. As it travels, air piles up in front of it, making a windy whoosh. Air friction turns the outside of the meteor white-hot while the inside remains cold. A few seconds after it hits the earth's atmosphere, the bolide explodes with a bang...
...adaption of German designs, the new Japanese weapon was a 20-ft., two-ton, wood-and-metal airplane launched from a conventional bomber. Carried to about 15,000 feet by the mother plane, the baka would be cast loose by its pilot to ride on the 40-second "whoosh" from three powerful rockets. Since the nose was simply a ton of TNT, the "Kamikaze" suicide pilot had only to aim himself at his objective, then prepare to meet his ancestors. There was no landing gear; the pilot was doomed from the moment he stepped into the cockpit...
Still there was no pause in the Greek civil war. The truce talks continued. So did the shooting. Now Athenians in their cellars caught another sound in the cacophony of conflict: the whoosh of rockets from British strafing planes. In the barricaded streets and around the ruins on the storied hills the tide of fighting ebbed & flowed. British Lieut. General Ronald M. Scobie warned ELAS that he would attack "with all the arms at my disposal," did so next day. Sherman tanks, spitting shells, dispersed ELAS troops in Mount Lycabettus. Beaufighters scattered ELAS concentrations north of the capital...