swooper

A common task, he said, is to neutralize the "swooper"- an out-of-town relative who swoops in and immediately makes demands about what should be done.

Mediators increasingly try to help families resolve conflicts over aging parents Sandra G. Boodman 2010

A common task, he said, is to neutralize the "swooper"- an out-of-town relative who swoops in and immediately makes demands about what should be done.

Mediators increasingly try to help families resolve conflicts over aging parents Sandra G. Boodman 2010

But a shielded swooper, while impervious to the "dis" ray, was helpless against squadrons of Han aircraft, for the Hans developed a technique of playing their beams underneath the swooper in such fashion as to suck it down flutteringly into the vacuum so created, until they brought it finally, and more or less violently, to earth.

The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914

I was captured by the Hans after my swooper was disabled in a fight with a Han airship and had drifted many hundred miles westward.

The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914

But to return to my narrative, and my _swooper_, from which I was gazing at the interior of the Han ship.

The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914

But the inertron shell of my swooper was impervious to the disintegrator ray.

The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914

They had seen my swooper shoot skyward out of control, and had followed it with their telultronoscopes until it had been caught in a gale at a high level, and wafted swiftly westward.

The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914

Too late I realized that there was more to the business of air fighting, than instinctive skill in guiding a swooper.

The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914

The swooper was, of course, dropping tail first, and I had to be careful lest it turn over with a sharp blast from the motor, and dump me out.

The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914

We Wyomings possessed one swooper completely sheathed with inertron and counterweighted with ultron.

The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914