Word: swoops
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...easily found in pubs; and a group of 20 Bevanites were discussing their future at the home of one of them in Vincent Square. Giggling like schoolboys, they were all rounded up in the darkness of the respectable old square to await the strategic moment when they would swoop into the House of Commons by the back door and take Tory Whip Patrick Buchan-Hepburn by surprise. Swoop they did, just as the vote was held, to defeat the government forces by a majority of four...
...begun supplementing trucks with helicopters, and, in so doing, is regaining a disregard for rough terrain it has not been able to afford since the day of the mule. And today no naval aviator leaves a carrier deck without knowing that a helicopter is hovering near by, ready to swoop and pluck him from the sea if he is forced down...
...robbed by some French companions, saved from starvation by a kind farmer, thrown overboard by some Roman Catholics on a pilgrim ship because he was a Protestant, picked up by friendly privateers, whom he joined in an attack on a Venetian argosy that made him, in one swoop, a well...
...Ekco Products Co. of Chicago, biggest U.S. manufacturer of housewares, thought so much of television that it made a bit of history by signing, at one fell swoop, to sponsor four new ABC network nighttime programs: The George Jessel Show, Jamie, Quick as a Flash and Comeback...
...Senator Jenner prepares to swoop in on Boston for another hearing, the academic reign of terror he prompted the first time has not yet worn off. After the Law School's Record, Legal Aid Society and Forum cased controversial students and speakers off their rosters and programs, the U.N. Council now announces that it has relinquished its rights to show The Emperor Jones because, starring as it does Paul Robeson, it is "too controversial." This University has never, like some, banned a film. But it does not even have to consider the problem these days. Student exhibitors are banning them...