Word: swooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every day they were strafed by German planes which would swoop as low as 15 feet, machine-gunning refugees, who made targets of themselves by running. The Klines lay flat, eventually got all their film and equipment out of Poland via Riga, Latvia...
...particular he lamented the failure of airplanes to follow up the submarine Salmon's discovery and crippling of a German sea squadron last month. The submarine had to dive to escape, but not before it told the R. A. F., which then let slip a luscious chance to swoop on the enemy. "Since there is now no time for the Navy to organize its own air service," wrote the testy Admiral, "it is imperative that the coastal command [of R. A. F.], with a suitably equipped striking force of bombers and fighters attached, should be placed under operational control...