Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inferior Polish materiel and the rashness of the High Command and the German development of Blitzkrieg tactics with tanks and planes. The second was the swift German conquest of Norway-explained by fifth-column activity and the elaborately daring German plan of invasion. The third was the German sweep through the Low Countries and France, an elaboration of Blitzkrieg tactics with Panzer divisions, planes, parachute troops, deception, fifth columny all used with symphonic mastery...
...Legislative bodies are not strong in detail but in general principle; they are most competent not in the minutiae of government but in the determination of the general directives of government action. The very greatest quality of the Constitution in the opinion of many notable commentators is the broad sweep of its language, its success in enunciating general principles of political action. As state constitutions grew longer and longer, they became weaker, and as state and congressional statutes became longer and longer, they lost some of their original values...
...true measure of Britain's determination to knock out Italy was not seen until last week when that taciturn Scot, Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, took his Eastern Mediterranean Fleet on a thoroughgoing sweep of Mare Nostrum (the R. N. calls it "Cunningham's Pond"). All around the eastern circuit went Sir Andrew, even loitering for a while off Pantelleria (between Sicily and Africa) to try to lure forth the Italian Fleet. When it did not come, Sir Andrew ordered full steam for the Gulf of Taranto, in the Italian instep between the Calabrian toe and the heel...
Italy tried to retrieve her shattered face by claiming, belatedly, that during Sir Andrew's sweep of the Mediterranean, an Italian submarine thrice torpedoed one of his battleships of the Ramillies class. Benito Mussolini blustered that only three ships had been hit at Taranto. only one badly damaged. London laughed. Her agents told her that a military court was sitting in Rome to discover who had let Taranto happen...
...previously been allowed, was confirmed. The Emperor himself paused in pompous celebrations of the 2,600th anniversary of the Japanese Empire to discuss expansionist moves with Army and Navy leaders. The newspaper Yomiuri defined all this without making any mince: "The work left for Japan is to sweep away the remains of the white empire which so long has held sway in our part of the world...