Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote the great Goethe in his poetic memoirs, describing a trip through the forest which Germans call Black. Last week other travelers saw this forest, travelers from the fruitful fields of Kent, from tight little hills of the Cotswolds, from the broad sweep of Devon and Yorkshire moors. To these men the forests had a grisly attraction. These travelers were R. A. F. bomber crews, flying on one of the most extraordinary missions of World...
...homes, our families-and far more. We shall be defending a way of life which has given more freedom to the soul and body of man than has ever been realized in the world before. . .. The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mountains-the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic-have always blown on free men. We are free today. If we join together now . . . and face the common menace as a united people, we shall be free tomorrow...
...third successive sweep of the New London regatta and the surprise victory over Yale in the baseball series provided a tumultuous climax to an otherwise mediocre 1939-40 athletic year...
After the conquest of Norway, Ger many planned to sweep the whole dynasty of King Haakon from the throne. But the King and Crown Prince escaped to Britain, the Crown Princess and the royal grand children to Sweden. Norway's quisling, Major Vidkun Quisling, demanded that King Haakon renounce the crown for him self and his descendants. Haakon politely refused. Germany intrigued to get Crown Prince Olav to replace his father on the throne, but Olav would have none of it. Then Crown Princess Martha in Sweden was offered a regency in the name of her son, Prince Harald...
...Nazis gained mastery of the air they could demolish the bases from which the British Fleet operates in the Channel and the North Sea; they could make those narrow seas untenable for the trawlers which lay and sweep mines; they could sink British destroyers (whose vulnerability has already been proved) which tried to counterattack with their own torpedo boats; they could keep British convoys out of the Channel; they could destroy the western port facilities through which Britain receives the goods necessary to her life and defense. Under these conditions the British Fleet might remain unconquered, the British merchant marine...