Word: whooshes
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Setting forth on this errand, he headed south with a whoosh, traveling like an over-the-road trucker trying to roll his rig home before morning. The pace wilted his helpers, but after three punishing days Dewey was still full of pep and rich with delegates...
...standard U.S. fighter plane for 1948 would be Republic's P-84. Surnamed the Thunderjet, the P84 is probably the world's fastest fighter in tactical service.* Combat-loaded, the Thunderjet's speed is more than 600 m.p.h. Its sound in flight is an ear-cracking whoosh...
...dump" the transparent bubble canopy over your pressurized cockpit. "When your cover goes off you are subjected to what the doctors call 'explosive decompression' . . . the gas and air in your lungs and belly and muscles must escape and expand. They go out of you in a great whoosh; your lips flutter . . . and your body feels as if it were 'getting a great thrust from all directions...
Small fry spat out their bubble gum and rushed to get a new bubble-blowing outfit which produces bubbles four to five feet in diameter, and with the consistency of Cellophane. One shortcoming: when punctured, the bubbles collapse with a despondent whoosh instead...
...Whoosh! In Vlaardingen, Holland, a chemical worker snitched a likely looking piece of filter cloth (which happened to contain a good deal of guncotton), made himself a pair of pants, then rashly struck a match on them...