Word: swoops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fighting sputtered on despite the ceasefire. American pilots stood their planes on their wingtips to swoop down and drop supplies to a garrison of Meo tribesmen under daily attack in the mountain village of Padong, only 20 miles from the Communist "capital" of Xiengkhouang. In one five-day period, 40 Russian planes delivered 80 tons of supplies to the Pathet...
...cold, sharp eye and a strong back. Beyond that, it all depends on the gardener's psychological makeup. One familiar type detests routine plucking, but he keeps alert enough en route to his car in the morning or to the backyard barbecue in the evening, and can spot, swoop and pluck without so much as a change in stride or loss of one of the 50,000 seeds. The second major type abhors garden work of all kinds, but when forced, kneels and begins working his way along the train of crab grass with such insatiable preoccupation that...
...much more than the 10-minute-long Variations. Leaving its stormy rhetoric, it becomes pensive, then playful, and sprints away into the upper registers to drift off into what is marked "no tone." At another point a glissando emerges from the rattle motive to dive upon the melody below, swoop up again pursued by a line of single notes, and exhaust itself in a final upward surge...
Some are composed of great oblong globs of glowing color; others are webs of matted threads that circle and swoop but never get tangled. When Downing first began his "stapleages." he stapled together bits of wills, marriage licenses and birth certificates-the documents of life itself...
Last year 6,000 German troops, joining U.S. Seventh Army veterans in "Winter-shield" maneuvers along the Danube, put on a dazzling show. In one swift swoop, a German armored unit, theoretically knocked out a battalion of Seventh Army tankers and infantrymen...