Word: swoopingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shelling: dead black mesquite trees, torn out of the ground, lie in a vast twisted litter. Vultures like to sit in sinister profile upon the dead trees; they give the scene an eerie stylized hellishness. This particular mesquite has been the victim of chaining and spraying: crop-dusting planes swoop in low over the range and spray a chemical called TORDON 225E onto the mesquite. A year or more later, a pair of bulldozers about a hundred yards apart make their way across the same area dragging an enormous ship's anchor chain between them...
...Brigadier General James Dozier in Verona on Dec. 17. Even as police were still sifting through the newly discovered evidence, a Brigades courier turned up at one of the raided apartments to deliver a message to Giovanni Senzani, 39, a Brigades mastermind, who had been arrested during the swoop. The note requested Senzani's advice on how to handle the Dozier kidnaping. Investigators concluded that the letter came from Dozier's captors and hoped to trace the courier's trail back to their hideaway...
...routine thus intersecting another and disrupting both. Then, too, there was the location of the event. Washington, the city of form and regulations, turned chaotic, deregulated, by a blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal. The jets from Washington National Airport that normally swoop around the presidential monuments like famished gulls are, for the moment, emblemized by the one that fell; so there is that detail. And there was the aesthetic clash as well-blue-and-green Air Florida, the name a flying garden, sunk down among gray chunks in a black river. All that...
...Riot police swoop down on Warsaw firefighters school and end an eight-day sit-in by 320 cadets demanding academic reforms...
...flexibility, one top official observes that "there is nothing to prevent us, in the future, from revising our objectives." For example, the U.S. might be willing to phase in the reductions-or as a senior State Department official puts it, "to reach zero without doing so in one fell swoop...