turmoil vs whirlwind

turmoil

noun
  • Harassing labour; trouble; disturbance. 

  • A state of great disorder or uncertainty. 

whirlwind

noun
  • A person or body of objects or events sweeping violently onward. 

  • A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. 

adj
  • Rapid and minimal: a whirlwind tour, a whirlwind romance. 

How often have the words turmoil and whirlwind occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )