Word: swooped
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...least formally—than even Bob Dylan. Where he weaved stories on an intricate but predictable meter, Newsom spins an ever-evolving sequence of rhyme schemes. In “Emily,” she paints an organic tale of a dying kingdom, and the swoop and pull of the orchestration (arranged by Van Dyke Parks) makes it sound like an apocalyptic dirge from another planet. “Monkey & Bear” is more in the vein of medieval balladry, its anthropomorphized title characters undertaking an epic journey with lute-like accompaniment. “Sawdust & Diamonds...
...Pearl's instant-messaging program. The keyboard, which overlays QWERTY onto a standard-looking number pad, was remarkably good at anticipating what word or phrase we meant to type before we were done. With Bluetooth wireless connectivity, voice dialing and a new application that lets you zoom and swoop all over a U.S. road map, the complete package is so seductive, we might soon find ourselves joining CrackBerrys Anonymous...
...further link, the father of Rauf's wife and her sister runs Darul Uloom Madina, one of Pakistan's biggest and most hardline seminaries, with some 2,000 students, in Bahawalpur, Azhar's hometown. Rauf's arrest in Bahawalpur was one of the events that prompted British police to swoop in on the suspected London conspirators last Thursday, for fear they would become suspicious if they lost contact with such a central figure in their plans...
...border is accompanied by the door-slamming sound of exploding shells nearby. Dirty clouds of smoke and dust blossom on the rocky hillsides. The flames and smoke of brush fires sparked by shelling add to the noonday haze and turn vast expanses of countryside into sterile charred deserts. Jets swoop overhead, dropping massive bombs that leave huge towering columns of smoke, the blast carried for miles on the hot breeze...
...Israelis jets circle high above, tiny silver specks against the blue sky, before taking turns to swoop and fire missiles into the South Lebanon village of Froun, two miles from here. The huge blasts and column of dirt and smoke that rise from Froun are watched intently by Haj Rabieh and Abu Mohammed, two veteran Hizballah fighters, who live among the bombed-out ruins of this village just south of the Litani river. An Israeli reconnaissance drone whines directly overhead and both Hizballah men know that the bombs pounding Froun could soon be directed against them if they are spotted...