Word: swoopingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brad was frequently disciplined at breakfast, when, free from the effects of Ritalin, his appetite would spike and he would try to compensate for three meals in one fell swoop. Of course he was denied a larger portion, because each camper had a limited amount of food available to them in any one sitting...
...usual m.o. was to swoop in to seduce the candidate, caroming among five different campaigns, calling from a pay phone and needing the big guy now. "He's like a cult leader," says Stuart Stevens, a Dole media consultant who once worked with Morris. "The client has to get in there, drink the Kool-Aid and look him in the eye, get the whole mystical connection going...
Then the movie hits what's probably its high point, with a fine poetic juxtaposition. One day Manny refuses to play turbulent airplane to Lo's stewardess (Lo stands and balances on her, fidgeting) because she secretly fears for Lo's increasingly visible pregnancy. So in one swoop, Krueger has portrayed well the jarring, forced switch from pretend to inevitable real life...
...meantime, the Republican Party will rush to swoop up soft money, helping make this the most expensive campaign in history. More than $1.5 billion is expected to be spent on all federal elections this year, with soft money making up the fastest-growing part of that lucre. The two major parties are likely to raise $125 million of it, double the amount they collected in the last presidential cycle...
...acquisition, nor to be serving on the Supreme Court. The final club system provides the opportunity to return the women to their "proper" place. The Harvard men surround themselves with flocks of women, not only Harvard women, but women from all over the Boston area. In one fell swoop, the individuality we have struggled so hard to attain is enveloped in a great migration of Bostonian women...