heaving

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."

Shopping areas, including the market of Addisu Gebeya, were heaving in Addis Ababa on New Year's Eve, despite the rain - as people rushed to prepare for the celebrations.

Then Brooks shifts into the light thriller she’s teased since the opening notes of heaving, scratchy violins.

“Everything,” El Coronel said, heaving a sigh of relief, “is calm.”

A once quiet dusty border town, it has turned into a transit hub, heaving with refugees from both Sudan and its neighbour to the south.