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groundswell
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Groundswell is the first LP album by Parts & Labor , released in 2003 on JMZ Records. The album is entirely instrumental. The enhanced content features a video for the song "Intervention".
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groundswell \ground"swell`\ (ground"sw[e^]l`), n. A long, deep wave in the sea, sometimes caused by distant winds or storms. A rising sentiment of support or enthusiasm, especially among the general public; as, a groundswell of opinion favoring campaign ...
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How To Stage the Countercoup We, the people, can start a groundswell that will eventually topple the Bush/Cheney Junta–with a commitment of only a couple of hours a week.
On the video screen, to the accompaniment of Bach supported by the alien groundswell of electric guitars from the floor below, Raquel Welch in an animal-skin bikini fled from a dinosaur.
Now the groundswells were getting taller, their crests torn off, but the bulk of every wave remaining, its face surging up as it encountered the sea bottom.
The groundswell was coming out of the north, almost directly ahead of them, so that looking to port or starboard the horizon line was particularly jagged, a wavy line of blue water against the blue sky, in a too-small circle surrounding the ship-as if the proper Terran distance to the horizon were stubbornly embedded in the brain's optics, so that when they saw things clearly here, they would always appear to stand on a planet too small for them.
The groundswell was coming out of the north, almost directly ahead of them, so that looking to port or starboard the horizon line was particularly jagged, a wavy line of blue water against the blue sky, in a too-small circle surrounding the ship—.
In fact, he had expected to face down the Emperor there, aided by a groundswell of popular support from the other nobles.