Word: swooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enemy ships could swoop in and shell New York; enemy planes could drop bombs on war plants in Detroit; enemy troops could attack Alaska...
ITHACA, N. Y., Feb. 18--Harvard's low flying basketball team took another swoop tonight as it dropped a 40 to 34 decision to Cornell, which moved into a tie for the league load with Dartmouth by virtue...
...rabbits out of it, last week pulled out a rabbit and threw him into the brier patch of Civilian Defense. The fierce-looking rabbit: hawk-faced, hawk-eyed James McCauley ("Chink") Landis, Dean of Harvard Law School. A precocious Princetonian and one of the keenest legal eaglets ever to swoop from Harvard Law School, Dean Landis was an early Brain Truster, as SEC chairman presided over a whipped Wall Street...
...hold until the next thrust at Moscow, planned for the coming of warm weather. But Soviet military leaders claimed that German morale faltered as Red strategists dusted off guerrilla techniques unused since the first Finnish campaign: ski troops to scourge the ski-less, fleeing enemy; night raiders to swoop down on exhausted, sleeping soldiers; propeller-driven sleds mounting cannon and machine guns...
...swoop last week war blacked out three of California's brightest sport attractions: Pasadena's Rose Bowl football classic, San Francisco's East-West all-star game and the opening of Santa Anita, world's richest horse-race meeting. While California businessmen mourned the loss of a possible $20,000,000, the citizens of New Orleans cheered and chortled...