Word: swooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Instead of being able to make one swoop, the Navy has to carry dribbles of men and material to the rim of its positions, housing, feeding and protecting them meanwhile, until it has enough accumulated to launch an attack. In the Southwest area General MacArthur is circumscribed by the same lack of shipping. Australia is 7,500 miles from San Francisco. It is another 1,000-2,000 from Australian unloading points to the New Guinea battlefront...
...Pickup and delivery service of mail and express by planes that swoop low over rural airports would be extended some 55,000 miles...
This raid was only one of many hundreds of tip-&-run raids. The same day another coastal town was hit. England's Atlantic City, Brighton, had nearly a hundred raids. The Germans choose misty days and they swoop out of the clouds, sometimes with their engines switched off, spray the town with bullets, dump their bombs and are off before the ack-ack is effective...
There were living things in the valley: herds of cattle and horses and sheep, with dogs and Arabs tending them. And above them there was the occasional flutter of a sparrow or the swoop of a hawk. Over head the sky was bright with patches of creamy cloud. This was a valley to which men could come for peace...
...Japan at war. As an Argentine commercial attaché, 33-year-old Ramón Muñiz Lavalle was in Hong Kong when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He went to Tokyo just before Bataan fell. From the streets of the Japanese capital, he saw Doolittle's raiders swoop low over the housetops a year ago (see p. 30). Japanese officials received him and confided in him as a representative of a "cooperating" nation. But Lavalle himself was not neutral: he was against the Japs, against the Axis. After ten wartime months in Japan, he left...