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An antidote to shoutier, perhaps less truly confident cities, there is an old joke that the local tourist board motto is: "Don't tell anyone or the place will be heaving."

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2025

By now, a lot in fact will be happening, and some of the historic contours of the race will be heaving into view.

From The Guardian • Nov. 2, 2020

From now to Christmas The New Yorker will be heaving with ads for crystal yaks and other lavish doodads in "limited editions," for which one assumes there must be buyers.

From Time Magazine Archive