Word: woo-woo
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...Woo-Woo...
...Porter attacks on his silver policy. As the only lady business columnist in harness, she was in steady vogue as a lecturer. "After all, our second choice," wrote the executive secretary of the Massachusetts Bankers Association to Sylvia's lecture agency, "would not have the allure and woo-woo of Miss Porter...
Across the Atlantic in Britain, a young (34) American electronics expert, Bill Young, sat in a gadget-packed trailer parked near Jodrell Bank's giant radio telescope. The 250-ft. dish picked up the "woo-woo" signal from Pioneer V's 5-watt transmitter on schedule and swung slowly to track it through the sky. Bill Young listened. Twenty-seven minutes after the launch, when the rocket was about 5,000 miles above the earth's surface, he pressed a button that sent a radio impulse to the telescope's big dish, and from...
Signal for Woo-Woo. Five minutes later, Bill Young sent another message, and Pioneer V obediently switched off its transmitter. Every hour on the half-hour Young turned the transmitter on and listened to its woo-woo sound for 15 minutes. Then he turned it off to permit the 4,800 silicon cells in Pioneer V's four "paddles" to recharge its storage batteries with solar-generated electricity. This routine was repeated successfully until the earth's rotation put Pioneer V below Jodrell Bank's horizon...
...Woo-woo boogie woogie, choo-choo...