Word: swooping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome thought, laid the "juridical basis" for an Italian walkout from the 27-nation phalanx of Nonintervention, raised the risk of Italian action as heedless of Geneva as the Ethiopian war. Meanwhile in Spain, the big Russian air fleet of the Leftists machine-gunned Rightist trenches in one fell swoop along 330 miles of the fighting front...
After one more downward swoop that carried the latest Treasury issue nearly two points below par, the Government bond market leveled off last week for the first time since the decline began early last month (TIME, March 22). Widely regarded as marking the end of the long bull market in bonds and the start of an inflationary stage in Recovery, the drop in Governments was followed by the shelving of half a dozen corporate bond offerings and a general tightening of sensitive short-term money rates. By any normal standard money was still ridiculously cheap but the up trend...
...gain are the observations one woman in a large plane can jot down when she is not piloting, navigating, or working the radio. Since Miss Earhart started the flight on every front-page in the country, any accident to the equipment will also be described there, and at one swoop the years of study by the airlanes can be discredited...
...many a critic, Saint Joan is the lone instance in which the world's cleverest playwright discards the brakes of self-consciousness and permits himself one glorious swoop of spiritual freewheeling. In common with the body of Shaviana, Saint Joan turns on an agile inversion. But this inversion, the definition of a miracle as an event which creates faith, seems to spring from Shaw's heart instead of his head. A great, noble warmth suffuses the narrative from the time the tomboy Maid (Miss Cornell) makes de Baudricourt's hens lay in order to persuade...
...fear, no reason to doubt the reality of the 'Red Terror' any more than that of the 'White Terror' "), but that such grisly facts are a temporary phenomenon. They point out that Russia's social, political and religious revolutions were all concentrated in one swoop, whereas in England, for instance, they were separated, spread out over four centuries. Why has Russia's planned economy not yet succeeded in banishing scarcity? Say the Webbs: 1) because at first every productive resource had to be geared to the threat of war; 2) because Russia is waking...