Word: swoopings
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They can be amiable and unassuming by day, indistinguishable from other British teen-age girls. But at night they become birds of prey. Sometimes silently, sometimes shrieking, they swoop down in groups on unsuspecting victims in dark streets, at lonely bus stops and in deserted toilets. Kicking, biting, scratching, punching, they reduce the victim-usually another female-to hysteria and then disappear, stealing perhaps only a few pence. To Londoners, they are known as the bovver (cockney for bother, which in turn means fight) birds, the newest and in some ways the eeriest street gangs since the Teddy boys terrorized...
...with the show, copping the 1970 Tony Award for the best supporting actress. At 5 ft. 4 in. and 100 Ibs., she is waifish, impish and has a voice that can shift gears from blues to ballads, from glass-shattering high notes to deep-down growls in one easy swoop...
...Fell Swoop. Individuals are also free to sue, of course, but uncertainties about the various legal recourses, fear of lawyers' fees and the hostility of employers have scarcely encouraged women to fight for their rights. One who did was Mrs. Ida Phillips, who sued the Martin Marietta Corp, in Orlando, Fla.. and got the Supreme Court to rule that a woman cannot summarily be barred from employment just because she has preschool children. Another was Mrs. Sally Reed, who challenged an Idaho law giving preference to men as administrators of estates...
Women's rights advocates insist that the amendment's wording should allow no compromise, even for military service, because, as Justice Department Lawyer Mary Eastwood has put it, then the amendment "in one fell swoop would require equal treatment of men and women." Equal treatment would not necessarily mean the end of a housewife's legal right to support from her wage-earning husband, but such a benefit would also have to be available to the husband who stays home with the kids while his wife works. In other words, the amendment's backers want...
What Senator William Proxmire is doing the hard way with his hair transplants, Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox has accomplished in one fell swoop. Returning to the state senate after a longish lunch hour, a new-look Maddox explained: "Sorry I'm late-I had to stop and get my new hair." Later, looking vaguely avuncular in his sandy gray toupee, he proclaimed himself a pacesetter. "You remember when I rode backwards on my bicycle-now everybody is buying bicycles," he observed. "You just watch, pretty soon everybody will be buying hairpieces...