That hasn't prevented curmudgeons in Battery Park and Brooklyn Heights from complaining about the occasional whump-whump-whump over their heads.
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I guess a WHUMP is what you get from WALLOPS (291D).
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Well, I have come to a realization this year that life is like being a pound coin in one of these devices, and when you are middle-aged you are at the bit just before the coin starts going whump, whump, whump in horizontal circuits of the lower funnel that are so rapid as to be indistinguishable, just seconds before it disappears for good.
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And you're texting all your friends and slowly drinking a Heineken and occasionally just leaning your arm against the window and watching as the sky fades from blue to pink to gray, and the night approaches, and you can feel your heart skip in your chest a bit—wuh-whump, wuh-whump, wuh-whump—and you know this is going to be a good one.
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Inside the cab, however, there was nothing more than a big, snow-softened whump .
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The "whump" is the sound of the thickened filling bumping against the top crust as it bubbles at a steady pace.
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In every film, he plummets from a great height, bloodied by bullets from aircraft, and he lands with a whump on the New York City pavement.
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By midsummer in the first year of the invasion there was the nightly "whump" sound of rocket-propelled grenades slamming into the shuttered windows of alcohol stores.
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It was late at night and he couldn't see more than several feet in any direction, but he thought he heard the whump of multiple objects peppering the aircraft.
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Moonshiners devised various methods for avoiding detection. Smith recalls: > On my walks to the country store, I have stood barefoot, watching as the > hauler carefully brushed away his tire tracks with pine boughs. Moonshine > stills were well concealed within the dark recesses of the mountains, but > the smoke still wafted skyward from points all over the green mountains. Not > so easily concealed were the odor of the mash fermenting and the whump, > whump, whump of the thump keg.
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However the feminine terminology is stigmatized within military language; thus creating a duality of sexual binaries where one is inherently better than the other by simple term association within the language narrative. The sexual metaphorical imagery of "vertical erector launchers, thrust-to-weight ratios, soft lay downs, deep perpetration and orgasmic whump" gives evidence to the predominant phallic nature of the military. Furthermore, there is an underlying discourse towards gendered weakness by the dichotomy of the "protector" and the "protected". She asserts that classifying something as "invulnerable, invincible and impregnable" is a masculine trait; because by definition and association of pregnancies, women are the ones susceptible to pregnancy.
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