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Word: whump (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gunboats that had ambushed us. Blood-red tracers zipped, skipped and finally floated out like spent skyrocket bursts as they sought targets. Brilliant, diamond-bright air bursts from Communist shore batteries to the east rained shrapnel down. Over the roar of small boats' motors rose the baritone whump of Nationalist three-inchers and the chatter of both sides' machine guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Convoy for Quemoy | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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