Word: swoopingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some residents, including English professor andplaywright William Alfred, long for the days ofcorner drug stores and cheap groceries andrestaurants. The Athens St. resident recalls whenVie de France at 1100 Mass. Avenue replaced agrocery store, a Chinese laundry, and aninexpensive Japanese restaurant in one fell swoop...
...precise path, it enabled them to make accurate last-minute corrections in the courses of Vega 2 and Giotto. The second Vega was to pass within 5,000 miles of the comet on March 9, supplementing Vega 1's findings. Giotto's mission four days later was to swoop to about 300 miles of the nucleus, shooting close-up pictures as it passed. Precision pathfinding was less important for the Japanese craft. Suisei, designed to study the huge hydrogen gas cloud surrounding Halley's, was targeted to fly by the comet at a distance of almost 100,000 miles. Sakigake...
...Soviet probe Vega 1 will fly through the coma, passing within 6,000 miles of the nucleus. It will be followed by another Soviet craft, two Japanese probes, and the European Space Agency's Giotto, which will make the most daring pass of all. On March 13, Giotto will swoop within about 300 miles of Halley's nucleus and--if it survives the encounter --transmit the first close-up pictures of a comet's nucleus ever seen...
...University with all the investment brainpower of Harvard to say that it could not over a period of a year profitably rearrange its portfolio is straining credibility. Students are not demanding that Harvard literally sell all of its stock in one fell swoop. Harvard can drag it out over a year or two if it wants...
...title role, Richard Thomas makes the transformation from naive youth to tortured victim to avenging superhero with startling eclat. Roscoe Lee Browne, Patti LuPone, Michael O'Keefe and Zakes Mokae all have riveting individual moments, yet seem completely in step with Sellars' overall vision. In one swoop, Sellars has brought a fresh burst of energy to America's long- running quest for a true national theater. And that is what being a wunderkind is all about...