Word: swooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Watch out, United States. He is about to swoop down on your towns with balloons (5,000 were released in Columbia with a whoosh and a cheer) and bands (he borrowed the one from Rock Bridge High last week) and old stories (he told one about the verdant farm credited as the Lord's work until the farmer, irked at the preacher, pointed out it had been a mess when God tended it alone...
When racquetwoman Lucy Miller disposed of Yale's number five Liza Geary, 15-10, 15-12, 15-12, Harvard grabbed--in one fell swoop--both the Ivy and national titles from the defending-champion Elis...
...arrested thousands of opponents, but a new crackdown last week is a milestone in the Pretoria government's retrenchment against change. Last Thursday the government announced new press restrictions that destroyed any pretense of a free press, and on Friday the police carried out a self-proclaimed "swoop," rounding up not only opposition activists, but also reporters and even two Swiss citizens in neighboring Swaziland...
Remote airstrips in the Oregon hills and Idaho flats are buzzing with traffic as planes from as far away as Maine and Tennessee swoop in, bringing assistance from all over the country and swelling the local fire-fighting ranks from 6,000 to 17,000. Four C-141 transports loaned by the U.S. Air Force are bringing in reinforcements and supplies, while 36 helicopters fight the blazes from above. Tent cities are springing up in places with names like Sled Springs, near major conflagrations. Around the clock, caravans of yellow school buses deposit scores of yellow-shirted fire fighters. Senior...
...York Philharmonic will play in Central Park. On July 6, the closing ceremony in New Jersey's Giants Stadium will feature more stars than there are in heaven, to use MGM's old motto. Throughout the weekend, rockets will glare, bands will blare, sails will billow, pigeons swoop and spectators whoop; 200 square dancers will hop, 300 tap dancers will bop, Frankie Avalon and Francis Sinatra will croon while audiences swoon, and more than 12,000 immigrants will pledge undying allegiance to their new country...