Word: swooping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important, probably strongly feel themselves to be-in an alien. white world. The current SDS campaign has denied that the attitudes of white workers have anything to do with the situation of the painters' helpers. White workers. SDS claims have no objections to promoting the painters' helpers at one swoop. If so, it would appear to be a small miracle: that white workers-particularly the Irish Bostonians who are a large part of Harvard's work force-had completely escaped from even a trace of that racism which SDS is normally so ready, willing and able to trace...
...their own hands. Parliament was suspended, as were constitutional guarantees. Total administrative power was taken by the newly formed, all-powerful National Operations Council headed by Razak, which proceeded to suspend publication of all Malaysian newspapers for several days. Arrests began. Ninety-three alleged terrorists were bagged in a swoop on a Chinese apartment building in Kuala Lumpur, and Razak reported that all Communists and known sympathizers were being rounded up. Razak and the Tunku blamed all the troubles on Communist China, which, they charged, had funneled large sums of money to Communist agitators in Malaysia. Later, however, the Tunku...
...their success and black nonsuccess?" They're certainly not going to conclude that Jews are better than black people. But there is a convenient alternative explanation. Just assert that the Jews were successful only by cheating, and that the people they cheated were black. So in one fell swoop you explain both Jewish success and black nonsuccess. But there are a lot of Jews who are so obviously good guys that it's hard to say that they are gougers or cheaters or bigots. So what do you do? You call them hypocrites and you provoke them...
Chatô himself was more pirate than pachyderm. He loved to swoop down on an Old Master for sale on the New York art market and carry it off before slow-moving U.S. museums could get their boards of trustees to approve its purchase. He liked to boast that he once snapped up 33 pictures at the Wildenstein Gallery before lunch, then talked the Brazilian government into giving him a $3,000,000 loan to finance his purchases. As the "museum" grew, it was moved from one makeshift quarters to another. In recent years, it has been housed in Chateaubriand...
...Quick Swoop. He hired Italian-born Pietro Maria Bardi as his artistic guide and installed him also as director of the Sao Paulo Art Museum-then a museum in name only, except in Chatô's imagination. As chief of some 30-odd newspapers, 19 magazines, 22 radio and 15 TV stations. Chatô had plenty of money of his own. But not even that kind of tycoon can command enough millions to assemble an art collection of the scope Chatô had in mind. So Chatô did not scruple to use his press facilities to extract...