Word: upsweep
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...tempered thin by reality. "I think good times are just around the corner," says Wendy Smith. "There's work out there. Of course it may be harder and may not pay as much as people are used to, but I think you're going to see an upsweep. Now, it's true, things are too high. We never will see it like it was in the '70s. It's never gonna be the same again...
...lines of his speech so that no phrase would be lost in rough-edged delivery. In the ornate presidential suite of San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel, he was at it again, reading it over to his aides, experimenting with tricks of rephrasing and deciding precisely where an upsweep of his spectacles-case would lend the best visual punctuation. The Secretary of State wanted no misunderstandings of what...
...fencing team has been on the upsweep since its initial loss to Cornell, and has won the last three matches in quick succession. They cross with Columbia in the Blockhouse at 2:30 o'clock...
...heaving, welcome-shouting crowd that followed them hour by hour. Both were sartorially splendid; both made Protean clothes-changes. The Duchess had her hair done by Hairdresser Emile on one side and Emile Jr. on the other. The Emiles reported no grey hairs on either side; achieved a soft upsweep wave over the ears that fetched applause from newshens. The Duke, wrote the male press, looked 20 years younger than his 47. The Duchess, while not photogenic, wrote the feminine press, was much more attractive than her 45. The scurrying, roaring crowds saw little but a flash of a bareheaded...
...plover's distant call upsweep...
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