Word: swoops
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last year 6,000 German troops, joining U.S. Seventh Army veterans in "Winter-shield" maneuvers along the Danube, put on a dazzling show. In one swift swoop, a German armored unit, theoretically knocked out a battalion of Seventh Army tankers and infantrymen...
...Fings Ain't What They Used to Be is called The Student Ponce). But while a Tennessee Williams plumbs similar material to draw interior diagrams of crippled psyches, and a John Osborne casts about in it for new glooms and repeated angers. Littlewood insists on playwrights who swoop low with exuberance...
...election day draws close, Bagwell spends up to a dozen hours a day at plant gates, carrying his case to the rank and file. A band of Bagwell campaigners swoop down at shift-break time. The men are orange-shirted and the women are orange-skirted, and each uniform is stamped BAGWELL FOR GOVERNOR in black. (Highly visible orange and black are "this year's colors" for campaigners, so a Madison Avenue firm advised.) They wave orange balloons and they pass out orange matchbooks. An accordionist plays When the Saints Go Marching In or Show...
...stock market drifted lower over five of the past seven weeks, traders waited for the "selling climax" that would clear out the timid at one swoop, lay the groundwork for an advance. Last week the climax came. Sliding to its lowest point in ten months, the market suddenly plunged lower; selling was heavy, the tape ran minutes late on the downside, and the Dow-Jones industrial average gave up six points in less than two hours. Then, just as suddenly, the market turned about and headed upward in a broad and spirited rally. It continued to rally for the rest...
...stocks down several points. The drift has moved many professionals to sit on the sidelines and wait for a selling climax. In market folklore, a heavy trading day with the ticker running late on the down side is just the thing to clean out the fainthearted in one fell swoop, stop the market from dribbling lower every day. Since such a clean-out is impossible in the economy as a whole, the pessimists will have to bear their mood of uneasiness patiently until the dyspepsia passes...