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swung and toward
She cut the engines and slowly the cruiser swung around on the end of its lines until its bow was pointing into the wind and the cockpit faced toward the shore.
When he handed it back and I had hold of it safely, Pops was looking toward me and I said `` Now '', to Charlie and he swung the short length of lead pipe he'd meanwhile taken from his pocket, once.
He caught officer Simmons' eye, nodded toward young Bearden, and -- `` I swung my right as hard as I could.
He swung around, eyes toward the bedroom, some fifteen feet away.
:::"... they writhedgasping as Scylla swung them up her cliff and thereat her cavern's mouth she bolted them down raw — screaming out, flinging their arms toward me, lost in that mortal struggle.
As the thrower crosses the circle, the hips twist toward the front, the left arm is swung out then pulled back tight, followed by the shoulders, and they then strike in a putting motion with their right arm.
With a view camera the rear standard can be swung toward the wall to reduce the convergence.
He swung his camera around toward the action and pushed the shutter.
In the 1980s, Lorimar's output swung toward family-friendly sitcoms ; among these were Perfect Strangers and Full House, which were produced by Miller-Boyett Productions.
The weight is swung from its attached line like swinging a plumb-bob and then launched toward the targeted branch.
The hanbō can be held toward one end, and be swung like a katana or kendo sword.
From Pilot Knob, he swung west, away from St. Louis ( his primary objective ) and toward Kansas City, Missouri and nearby Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
The district was predominantly rural for much of its history, and thus was far friendlier to electing Democrats to Congress even as most of Texas swung toward the Republicans.
The report chronicled gruesome details of the events in 1953: how, by spending a meager sum of $ 1 million, the CIA " stirred up considerable unrest in Iran, giving Iranians a clear choice between instability and supporting the shah "; how it brought " the largest mobs " into the street ; how it " began disseminating ' gray propaganda ' passing out anti-Mossadegh cartoons in the streets and planting unflattering articles in local press "; how the CIA's " Iranian operatives pretending to be Communists threatened Muslim leaders with ' savage punishment if they opposed Mossadegh '"; how the " house of at least one prominent Muslim was bombed by CIA agents posing as Communists "; how the CIA tried to " orchestrate a call for a holy war against Communism "; how on August 19 " a journalist who was one of the agency's most important Iranian agents led a crowd toward Parliament, inciting people to set fire to the offices of a newspaper owned by Dr. Mossadegh's foreign minister "; how American agents swung " security forces to the side of the demonstrators "; how the shah's disbanded " Imperial Guard seized trucks and drove through the street "; how by " 10: 15 there were pro-shah truckloads of military personnel at all main squares "; how the " pro-shah speakers went on the air, broadcasting the coups ' success and reading royal decrees "; how at the US embassy, " CIA officers were elated, and Mr. Roosevelt got General Zahedi out of hiding " and found him a tank that " drove him to the radio station, where he spoke to the nation "; and, finally, how " Dr. Mossadegh and other government officials were rounded up, while officers supporting General Zahedi placed ' unknown supports of TP-Ajax ' in command of all units of Tehran garrison.
Just as Pietro began to celebrate however, the High Evolutionary's power swung toward the other extreme at the expense of his sanity.
Henrich swung at a full-count breaking curveball for strike three, but catcher Mickey Owen couldn't handle the ball, which got past him ( see photo ); Henrich began to move toward first base almost as soon as he saw the ball had dropped sharply, and when he saw it get past Owen he took off running.

swung and front
Then he backed out and swung around to the front drive.
The game was still tightly contested as it entered its final 15 minutes, but then Peters swung over a curling cross from the left flank and Hurst, anticipating his clubmate's thinking, got in front of his marker to glance a near post header past the Argentine keeper.
Some small planes use controls that can be moved from one position to another, such as a single yoke that can be swung into position in front of either the left-seat pilot or the right-seat pilot ( e. g., Beechcraft Bonanza ).
One of the pole shoes, hinged at the front, linked to the starter drive, and spring-loaded away from its normal operating position, is swung into position by the magnetic field created by electricity flowing through its field coil.
Undeterred by Latour's weak pressure on his front, Ney swung to his right and began pounding Kollowrat's troops.
The Prussians immediately in front gave way each attack, but those on the flanks swung inwards and under this converging fire each French attempt died out, the Prussians following up their retreat.
The front sheet-metal assembly, including the bonnet ( hood ) and wings, was a one-piece unit, hinged from the back, that swung up to allow access to the engine compartment.
When the body is almost completely turned, the other hand will be swung straight up through the air such that both hands meet at the front at the same time.
* Rond de jambe attitude: the leg is swung around from the front around to the side into attitude position behind as the supporting foot goes en pointe.
Negative campaign ads attacking each other by the two front runners soured the voters on them, and a last minute decision by Kerry to put all his remaining money in Iowa swung voters towards him.
* A color magazine or " boomerang " consisting of several gel frames which can be swung in front of the beam.
In the case of the Station Nightclub, the premises was over capacity the night fire broke out, the front exit was not designed well ( right outside the door, the concrete approach split 90 degrees and a railing ran along the edge, and an emergency exit swung inward, not outward as code requires ).
The attackers would meet the main defensive positions when they swung north and approached the Alam El Halfa ridge, well in the rear of the 8th Army ′ s front.
He touched Arnoux's right front with his left rear as he swung wide, but both continued, with Rosberg in second, followed by Laffite and Arnoux.
They were used in carefully choreographed routines where the clubs were swung in unison by a group of exercisers, led by an instructor in the front, similar to modern aerobics classes.
The top-opening one-strap design allows messenger bags to be easily swung around front so that their contents can be accessed without having to remove the bag.

swung and give
So in a last minute decision on election day " Boss " Kelly, switched his support from his former friend Harry Nice to Albert Ritchie and swung just enough votes Ritchie's way to give him the narrowest margin of victory in Maryland history.
The lead swung between North, Chen, Denis Watson, Payne Stewart, and Dave Barr, who had surged into contention, but North went into the last hole with a two shot lead, and his bogey five was enough to give him a second major championship.

swung and then
We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.
The rancher went a mile down this road and then, when he reached a big red boulder, swung off the road.
Mr. Podger sat down in it, pushed himself back and forth in one or two slow, rhythmic motions, and then swung his feet up into it.
For example, a shot of a zombie getting its head cut off may, for instance, start with a view of an axe being swung through the air, followed by a close-up of the actor swinging it, then followed by a cut back to the now severed head.
In the Jewish religious practice of Kapparos, a rooster as a religious vessel is swung around the head and then sacrificed on the afternoon before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
The 3rd Canadian Division captured Wolf Copse and secured its objective line and then swung back its northern flank to link up with the adjacent division of the British Fifth Army.
In use, it is swung from one pivot, and the period timed, and then turned upside down and swung from the other pivot, and the period timed.
It was swung first from one pivot, and the oscillations timed, then turned upside down and swung from the other pivot, and the oscillations timed again.
Unsure of what to do, Powell turned around and began descending the stairs, but then suddenly swung back around, drew a pistol, and pointed it at Frederick's head.
Palmes swung his cudgel first at Montgomery, hitting his arm, and then at Preston.
They moved as far as Pythion, then swung northeast to attack the Macedonians from the rear.
Small weights ( Halteres ) were held in each hand during the jump then swung back and dropped near the end to gain extra momentum and distance.
The division then swung south to take Nantes, cutting off the Brittany Peninsula, 12 August 1944.
The U. S. First Army on the right crossed the Rhine in early April and then swung left to liberate northern Holland.
To the north of Württenberg's III Corps, General Wrede's Austrian ( Bavarian ) IV Corps also crossed the French frontier and then swung south and captured Nancy against some local popular resistance on 27 June.
The Fool was then suspended over the fire and swung back and forth until he was almost suffocated before being cut down and dropped into the fire, where he had to make his escape as best he could.
Brunswick meanwhile had passed the northern defiles and had then swung round to cut off Dumouriez from Châlons.
Texas then swung behind Brooklyn but Oregon then ran up on the ' ' Texas ' ' and passed inboard masking the Texas ' fire.

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