Word: swooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find his feet." Around the first turn Turcotte decided the pace was too slow and chirped to his horse, planning to pass a few of his competitors at that point and get into early contention. But while Secretariat was accelerating, the others were slowing down. In one great swoop of the field, Secretariat was in front with still about three-quarters of a mile to run. And there he stayed with the greatest of ease...
...tenor). For 24 seasons (1926-50) at the Met, it was impossible to imagine Wagner without "the Great Dane." He sang in more than 1,000 Wagnerian performances-more than three times the total of any other singer-with no hint of diminution of the robust tenor that could swoop from a splendorous high to a deep, resonant...
...Boston College Eagles swoop into Watson Rink tonight at 7 p.m. in an effort to break the Crimson hockey squad's three game winning streak...
They can be amiable and unassuming by day, indistinguishable from other British teen-age girls. But at night they become birds of prey. Sometimes silently, sometimes shrieking, they swoop down in groups on unsuspecting victims in dark streets, at lonely bus stops and in deserted toilets. Kicking, biting, scratching, punching, they reduce the victim-usually another female-to hysteria and then disappear, stealing perhaps only a few pence. To Londoners, they are known as the bovver (cockney for bother, which in turn means fight) birds, the newest and in some ways the eeriest street gangs since the Teddy boys terrorized...
...with the show, copping the 1970 Tony Award for the best supporting actress. At 5 ft. 4 in. and 100 Ibs., she is waifish, impish and has a voice that can shift gears from blues to ballads, from glass-shattering high notes to deep-down growls in one easy swoop...