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Fortunately, the atomic bomb, in one fell swoop, struck down three enemies of human progress. It destroyed the hopes of the Jap fascists and their followers; it shattered the illusions of the isolationists; and it all but demolished the silly argument that governmental planning is ineffective and incompatible with democracy. It was public investment and government planning-the kind of planning that we rejected in peacetime-that enabled us to discover the instrument which finally smashed the last hopes of those who still think in terms of superior and inferior peoples, predatory individualism, and unrestrained aggressiveness...
...With one swoop the Army would wipe...
McCain's carrier-group commanders and Vice Admiral Sir Philip ("Cossack") Vian, non-flying commander of the British flattops, sent their flyers off to swoop out of a blustery dawn onto the airfields around Tokyo. In the bad weather, the aviators had poor hunting. The Americans, on the southern flank of the attack, could find only nine seaplanes, all sitting ducks, of which four were burned and five damaged. They also smashed two hangars, sank three small craft and damaged ten others. The British, farther north, destroyed a hangar and 13 planes. Both groups shot up locomotives...
Benny's last name was Martin and by the time they realize, with horror, that it is pronounced Marteen and that Benny came from deep on the ineligible side of the tracks, they have very little time left to give him a creditable background. When they swoop on Benny's father, he thinks they have come in force to evict him for nonpayment of rent. When he finally realizes what the game is, the boosters, the general, the girl and the no-good have to work out their own solutions...
Bundled in a special harness, lying (in the foetal position, which was thought to be safest) between two poles which held up a nylon loop, Doster watched a Stinson Voyager plane swoop down, suddenly felt himself lifting easily. ("No jerking sensation at all.") A winch pulled him up into the belly of the plane...