Word: swooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy enough," she cabled, "to say that the Greek war is an affair of daily raids in which armed bands . . . swoop down from the cracks and crevices of a mountain . . . to sack or burn villages and carry off able-bodied men and girls to forced service in their armies. But the imagination cannot picture the desolation that this hit-and-run fighting leaves behind it . . . Everywhere, the atmosphere was heavy with suspense. In such fearful quiet must the early settlers in the West have waited the descent of the Indians...
...pretty interesting experience. I did it three times and each time a large group of students held her long after the hour, asking questions. It seemed to be the part of the lecture that she enjoyed most. Answering each question with humor, precision and the dismissal, she would then swoop down on the next waiting student with eyes a-twinkle and relish in her manner...
...They Understand? Every social system is impelled toward insanities by its own rules. The Soviet State can kill off five million peasants "for the general good" in one swoop of deluded utilitarianism. The U.S.'s oft-repeated folly of destroying food in times of desperate need is far less horrible, no less insane...
...wanna wash yer hands or anything, dearie?") through the rigors of American history and sixth-grade spelling, the Education of Billie Dawn proceeds apace. The instructor is out of the ordinary: a New Republic man, he helps her to discover her social conscience and moral scruples in one fell swoop. Perhaps, she concludes, mistressing is out of date...
...swoop, War Assets Administration managed to get rid of 20,960 war planes, almost all it had left. WAA accepted bids of $6,582,156 for the lot, which had originally cost...