Word: swoopingly
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...trucks a night moving down the coastal roads. The Reds were increasing their number of antiaircraft guns (which have been shooting down an average of three to five U.N. planes a day). U.N. air crews spotted an estimated 300 tanks 55 miles north of Kaesong, poised to swoop down on Seoul along the same invasion route they used 13 months...
...young prince's slight frame was fitted out in olive drab and hung with the ritual cordon and sword. In one swoop, he was promoted from civilian to lieutenant general (Belgium's highest military rank) with nothing to bolster such splendor but an uncertain salute learned in Boy Scout days, still shaky despite much practice before a mirror...
...cabodos (rubber-tree tappers and Brazil-nut gatherers) who live along tributaries of the Amazon, the Caiapó Indians are bad medicine. Savage and naked, they lurk in the jungle until the men in caboclo settlements leave for the day's work. Then they swoop down, killing everyone but the girls, whom they kidnap. If they meet resistance, they fire thatched huts with flaming arrows, like Sioux attacking a covered-wagon train. Says an old trader: "The best thing to do when you see a Caiapó is to shoot first...
Negro boy named Doodoo Lawrence and inducted him into a Robin Hood band. Costumed in green and armed with bows, they would swoop down on some rich squire (such as a boy carrying groceries home), rob him and eat his riches in the forest. In Port Clyde, Maine, where the family spent the summers, Andy found another native nonconformist. Together they learned to handle a dory in heavy surf and to loot lobstermen's pots at night...
...authers of the freshman guidebook take a strong stand against untidiness. Smoking on the street and blue jeans are taboo, they warn. They rhapsodize the beauties of Radcliffe, but swoop swiftly to earth again, thusly: "Ivy walls notwithstanding, Radcliffe is an urban college. Radcliffe in the spring is lovely. The apple tree is in full bloom and the grass is green and inviting. But the Radcliffe Yard is not Coney Island. Don't sprawl about; even exam period is not an excuse for unladylike behavior...