See swoose on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1979 \"A History of Cancer Control in the United States, 1946-1971: Appendixes,\" U.S. National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Rehabilitation, p98",
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},
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"ref": "1979 \"A History of Cancer Control in the United States, 1946-1971: Appendixes,\" U.S. National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Rehabilitation, p98",
"text": "Well by the time all the cooks in that broth got through with it, by the time it emerged from the Congress, it was a \"swoose.\" It was not swan and it was not goose, it was a \"swoose.\" It was a \"swoose\" to its dying day, which hasn't quite arrived yet, but its [sic] imminent."
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"text": "But Mom describes my life that year pretty accurately when she says that I had become a “swoose”- that is to say, not a swan and not a goose.",
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