Word: swoops
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...wanna wash yer hands or anything, dearie?") through the rigors of American history and sixth-grade spelling, the Education of Billie Dawn proceeds apace. The instructor is out of the ordinary: a New Republic man, he helps her to discover her social conscience and moral scruples in one fell swoop. Perhaps, she concludes, mistressing is out of date...
...swoop, War Assets Administration managed to get rid of 20,960 war planes, almost all it had left. WAA accepted bids of $6,582,156 for the lot, which had originally cost...
Similes and metaphors romp hither & yon ("Here I am like a crow, circling, circling around and around, circling and cawing, cawing as I swoop in a downward arc to sink my teeth into the same old dilemma"). And, as ever, at the dip of a rambling pen, the characteristic Farrell brashness melts into oleomargarine
...were 25,000 acres of malarial wasteland in 1934, the company has kept 7,000 laborers busy at the sort of work that makes modern banana growing a feat of agricultural engineering. Example: from tall, movable towers giant sprinklers play over 3⅓ acres of banana trees in a swoop, supplying the equivalent of two inches of rainfall a week. A second complicated set of pumps and pipes squirts the bright blue Bordeaux mixture that keeps off the sigatoka disease...
...worries he can. His big problem is throttling his 175 pounds down to the speed of his interference. Totally unlike most high-pressure halfbacks, he takes high delight in mowing down a rival tackier while running interference for somebody else (he cut down two Duke tacklers with one swoop to make way for a 36-yd. Blanchard touchdown...