Word: whooshes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...milk run, a routine bit of island hopping. The Aloha Airlines jet was cruising at 24,000 ft., just 25 miles southeast of the Hawaiian island of Maui, en route from Hilo to Honolulu. Everything seemed normal aboard Flight 243 last Thursday afternoon when suddenly -- with a whoosh like a paper bag popping -- a gaping hole blew open in the fuselage directly above the first- class compartment. "Everything was flying around -- books, papers, money," said Stanford Samson, a passenger seated nearby. "A stewardess was in the aisle being pulled toward the hole. Everybody who could grabbed her and held onto...
Soon he had some statistics to support that argument, at least for the moment. Polls as recent as last month showed him behind or at best even with possible Democratic opponents. Furthermore, Dole then appeared more electable than Bush in such pairings. Last week the publicity whoosh of victory propelled Bush to the top of surveys matching him against leading Democrats. In a TIME poll conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman last Thursday, Bush ran slightly ahead of Democratic Front Runner Michael Dukakis (42% to 37%), while Dole was behind...
...putting cameras where they have never been before," says Pierre De Lespinois, a consultant for special effects. "We are taking the viewer off the 50-yd.-line and putting him in the game." Microphones have also been carefully spaced along ski routes for a more even and realistic whoosh...
...once there was a whoosh of wind, and I walked over to a brick wall until everything stopped shaking," said Gerald Livezey, a security guard at one downtown building. "Everyone was coming out...circulating, not knowing what...
Watch out, United States. He is about to swoop down on your towns with balloons (5,000 were released in Columbia with a whoosh and a cheer) and bands (he borrowed the one from Rock Bridge High last week) and old stories (he told one about the verdant farm credited as the Lord's work until the farmer, irked at the preacher, pointed out it had been a mess when God tended it alone...