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Word: swoopingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third line, freshman Jay (Swoop) North flanked by Dave Connors and Shayne Kukulowicz, showed flashes of excellence for the third consecutive game, and just missed putting home a couple of goals...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: 'Instant Karma' | 12/11/1980 | See Source »

...House without disrupting students' lives, Abernathy says. But he adds that a study of the Houses may take place in summer 1981. Next summer is also the target date for completing work on the Yard dorms, pending the Thayer experiment. "We would do the whole Yard in one fell swoop--I'd say it would take two or three days" to insulate each Yard building, Abernathy says...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: The Big Four | 9/24/1980 | See Source »

...Boise swoop has produced particularly broad concern, perhaps because the police invaded a newsroom and not, as in Flint, a commercial print shop where no journalists work. "I feel I've been completely compromised," said Reporter Loy, who had talked his way into the Idaho prison as a member of a convict-approved "citizens committee." "These people asked me to go in because they knew I could be trusted." CBS News President Bill Leonard called the raid "unjustified." New York Attorney Floyd Abrams, who has argued several press freedom cases, said the Boise action was "particularly offensive" because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Open Up, It's the Police! | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

Back in the cabin there is the obligatory little girl with the obligatory malady journeying to a life-or-death operation. Cheering her up with a song, one of the hostesses knocks the child's life-support system loose with a merry swoop of her guitar. On the ground, an increasingly harassed airport manager (Lloyd Bridges) reverts to bad habits as the pressure increases ("I guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue"). There is also, naturally, a senior pilot (Robert Stack) who is expected to talk the plane in. He is supposed to be lovably gruff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Happy Landing | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...made factors have combined most disastrously in Karamoja, a Vermont-sized rangeland in Uganda 200 miles northeast of Kampala. Since the downfall of Amin last year, Karamoja has turned into a surrealistic terror, as heavily armed marauders led by remnants of the fallen dictator's army swoop down on villages in search of food. While stealing it, they often kill every man, woman and child in sight. After almost a dozen relief workers were murdered, CARE and other agencies considered suspending their operations until some semblance of order could be restored. The troops dispatched to the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST AFRICA: A Harvest of Despair | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

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