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Their sons and daughters were whirling at fashionable balls, attending the opera and negotiating advantageous marriages.

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Dark matter was first postulated in the 1930s by the astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky, who observed that galaxies in the far-off Coma cluster were whirling around one another faster than the laws of physics would allow.

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Meanwhile a flock of knotty problems were whirling about OPA offices, keeping the enforcement staff in a tizzy.

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But two years later, when the sunspots were whirling in baleful profusion, Isadore Edelstein was nabbed for violating his parole, tucked backed in Walla Walla for keeps.

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Sure enough, the fierce birds were whirling in close to the intrepid Jess.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques