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Word: brooms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor movement. To kick out nearly 10% of its members with one boot would be a painfully drastic move for the A.F.L.-C.I.O., but it may come to that if, despite the clean-up-or-else warning, Hoffa gets himself elected president. James Riddle Hoffa would be one new broom that could hardly be expected to sweep clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Through Mahogany Doors | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...with nine members and a capital of 30 marks. "Stoves, beds and chairs had to be prayed for and mustered through faith," says Mother Basilea. Two solid weeks of prayer finally brought the housing authority around to granting them a room. Then they set about praying for furniture. "A broom was sent to us for which we had prayed for a week. A note was tied to it: 'The Lord insisted that I send you this. Did you really need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Different Sisters | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

Absence of any real controversy probably means only that The Harvard Union, both as an idea and as a building, has settled into a comfortable rut; Gen. Ed. A Offices replace the eighteen-table poolroom in the basement, and a broom-closet replaces The Harvard Monthly on the top floor. Harvard Utility has conquered "Harvard Democracy...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: The Union | 5/3/1957 | See Source »

...Catholic. He had begun to draw, paint, write stories; he yearned for action, detested orthodox stability, made the discovery that aristocrats and Jews were prime enemies of the people. "How I long for the Great War!'' he wrote in 1889. "It will sweep Europe like a broom, it will make Kings jump like coffee beans on the roaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great French Englishman | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...broom closet still had its Taft campaign portraits up, we noticed, as we stumbled into a conference of two legal minds who were batting out their indifferences before the assembled multitude...

Author: By A. F., | Title: Intrigue | 3/26/1957 | See Source »

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