Word: swoopingly
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Suddenly the surface fire slackens as the air strike begins. Flights of carrier planes swoop in from the north: dive bombers circle in the sun and plunge down almost vertically to drop their crumps. Avengers roar in low and you can see strings of slim black bombs drop out of their bellies. They make fat, black mushroom patterns along the length of the target. Then Hell cats flash over, tearing the sky with heavy machine-gun strafing...
...Swoop and Pounce. Nobody was more interested in armistice terms than the Bulgarians, whom the Russians had knocked in & out of a war by a sudden swoop and pounce last week. Delegates of Premier Kimon Georgiev's new Government might be the next guests in Spasso House. The Red Army was already in Sofia...
...Schedules. At war's end, if all U.S. plane contracts are canceled at one swoop, Grumman will have no choice but to "shut the doors" until he can find a market. But this contingency is remote. Grumman, with no cutbacks in the offing, this week goes back on a six-day week because of slightly increased schedules. And the shock of the end of the European war may be cushioned. The Navy may shift the bulk of plane contracts back to the old-line planemakers so that the automakers, et al., can get back to peacetime products...
Everywhere French patriot armies were rising, to fight the invader in his rear, to help Allied air fleets paralyze his movements. General Brereton's airborne army of 250,000 men was still a hovering menace that might swoop to cut any line of retreat anywhere. It could be used to speed the juncture of the Seventh Army in Provence with the forces before Paris. It might be dropped beyond Paris to slash the German escape route-or be set down in Germany beyond the Belfort Gap to speed an advance into Germany at the Swiss-border hinge...
...MacArthur's unexpected swoop into the Admiralty Islands last week tightened a noose around the Bismarck Archipelago (see map), attention was fixed on a Jap-held prize on the northern tip of New Britain. Rabaul, a great naval and air base, only 830 miles from Truk, may be MacArthur's next target...