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...second straight year of strong growth in jobs, income, production, sales, profits-so much so that one of the prognosticators' problems is keeping their predictions optimistic enough. Lately they have had to add a few billion dollars to their output forecasts because 1972 ended with such a whoosh. In fact they have a nagging suspicion that the economy may be accelerating a shade too rapidly, raising some danger that the upsurge could turn into the kind of inflationary blow-off that precedes not exactly a bust but a slump...
...charge Warlock Shai with thy priesthood on earth ... the deification of the human race." Reciting an ordination rite first in Latin and then in English, the speaker taps a second man on each shoulder with a sword. Someone pours flash powder on the sterno altar flame and whoosh! Fire leaps toward the ceiling...
...Irish immigrant couple in the Australian Outback, young Reggie hunted kangaroos and sold their pelts so he could pay the entry fees for local bike events. McNamara reached his peak in the 1920s as champion of the six-day marathon races held at Madison Square Garden, but continued to whoosh around the track until his retirement in the late 1930s. The battered bicyclist later fought alcoholism, then returned to the sport in the 1940s as a referee...
...EVEN cooler, Miami night. Cars slither up and down Collins Avenue, making those whoosh sounds that cars seem to make only when there is a beach nearby. Inside, big flower arrangements, place-cards, mounds of chicken liver, egg rolls, glasses clinking, uncles running around flashing Instamaties, loud laughter, embraces...
...guerrillas and occasionally looting shops. Many had their faces blackened, a traditional means of preventing identification and forestalling later feuds with the families of their victims. Amman became a city of sordid sounds-the crumbling of limestone buildings under the artillery barrage, the snap of rifle fire and the whoosh of shells, the cries of the wounded, and the wailing of women who had seen their families slain. In two of the biggest camps for Palestinian refugees, guerrillas insisted that at least 7,000 people had been killed by army shelling...