Word: wooshing
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...gone," Abbot said through tears. "It's all gone. Just like that. Woosh. Woooooooosssssssssssshhhhhhhhhh...
...tropical rain storm wailed through the rafters of the air-conditioned coliseum in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico as the Classics, Harvard's self-styled "vagabonding basketeers" took to the floor, undaunted by the murmur of a capacity crowd and the steady woosh emanating from the opposite end of the court as the Puerto Rican national team ran through a dunking drill...
Passionate Urge. Wells, in one of his favorite words, had the "woosh" of a man who judges everything to be within his grasp. When his first wife proved a sexual disappointment, he took a second. When the second wife proved a superb hostess-manager-but another sexual disappointment-he kept her and took mistresses, including the novelist Rebecca West, who in 1914, when she was 22 and he was 48, presented him with...
...have each one of you take a crack at me. Now you see your chance to follow up with a little more harassment." Crockett started to protest. Medina shut him up. An exasperated Justice had had a little more than it could bear. Waving his hands and saying "Woosh," Medina dismissed Witness Marcantonio and adjourned court for the weekend...
...unconfirmed report said that farther upstream the City of Ichang (pop. 60,000) disappeared with a woosh, was "wiped out." But all this was merely the doing of the Yangtze ("Willow") River, sometimes called "The River of Golden Sand" by poets because of its yellow silt. Farther north the Hwangho or Yellow River, equally bilious in color, was re-earning last week its age-old nickname. "China's Sorrow." In 1854 the Hwangho. which had emptied for half a millennium into the Yellow Sea, arose in a flood so cataclysmic that it changed its entire course and now empties...
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