Word: swooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least said about me and my fathers trip from the Bureau of Manhattan to our new home, the soonest mended. In some way ether I or he got balled up on the grand concorpse and next thing you know we was thretning to swoop down on Pittsfield...
...turns out to be a street in Brooklyn Heights overlooking New York harbor, with Manhattan as a cinemascopic background. Superman, after a hard day's work going faster than a speeding bullet and leaping tall buildings at a single bound, spots a cat caught in a tree and swoops down to the rescue. How does he swoop? How, in fact, does he fly? Ah, that is the reason for the cloaks and the daggers: the producers are terrified a photographer will follow the reporter and show Superman being held up by a 100-ft. crane and wires. Says...
...will pass over or under 800 streams and rivers, including the Yukon. It will rise 4,800 ft. into the Brooks Mountain Range, swoop down east of Fairbanks, rise 3,300 ft. in the Alaska Range, and eventually drop into half-million-bbl. storage tanks in Valdez to await loading on tankers. The trip will take a month, longer if trouble turns up. But if all goes well, an uninterrupted ribbon of oil-9 million bbl. just to fill the pipeline-should stretch across the Alaskan tundra by mid-July. The flow will be stepped up gradually, reaching...
...years ago, when Federal Judge Arthur Garrity paired Boston high schools with local colleges in the hope that shared experiences would improve educational quality, he paired Harvard with Roxbury. Joyce Grant, director of the Roxbury/Harvard Project, which coordinates the pairing, remembers the raised hopes. "People thought Harvard could somehow swoop in and take care of business," she said last week. Charles Ray, Roxbury High headmaster, said people thought Harvard had unlimited funds, and forgot Harvard has a budget, too. After three semesters of operation, a program has emerged that Grant and Ray think is in line with realistic expectations...
...hear it for Memphis Bishop Carroll T. Dozier [Dec. 20]. In one fell swoop, he raised divorced Catholics' morale sky high while simultaneously exposing some shadowy church law to the critical judgment of daylight. Dozier's decision to bestow general forgiveness of sins on some 12,000 Christians is big news today. In Christ's time it would have been a no-hum event. For Pete's sake, Christ came on earth to forgive...