Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debunker of great men and great legends is Historian Morison. Nor does he believe that the sweep and play of economic forces determine the major course of history. He was profoundly skeptical of biographies that presented Columbus as a fraud, a promoter, an exploiter of the achievements of others-especially, when he learned that the authors of such books, no matter how skillfully they could find their way around the archives, had no knowledge of the sea. Last fall Professor Morison set out to test his own generous and idealistic picture of the great Discoverer, by sailing...
...Only a new broom," said he, "can sweep clean the budgetary litter of the New Deal...
Terrific was the plot: a scheme to sweep aside New York City's 18,000 police, bomb a Jewish newspaper office and the Communist Daily Worker, wipe out all the Jews, seize U. S. Government gold in Manhattan, sabotage and then commandeer public utilities, set up a U. S. dictatorship. For practicing their plot, the 18 central characters had a rifle range. For the national affiliations necessary to their plan, they had connections with one of the several anti-Semitic "Christian Fronts" which infest the U. S. and particularly New York City (TIME...
...functioning - that one freely elected by the people!" cried Prime Minister de Valera in a fighting speech. In the lobbies of the Dail, meanwhile, it was whispered that I. R. A. plans were for a combined insurrection and war to overthrow the Governments of both Eire and Northern Ireland, sweep away the intervening fron tier and proclaim the Irish Republic - a move which Great Britain would certainly answer by sending an expeditionary force to Ireland as she did to crush the "Easter Rebellion" of 1916. Thus what members of the Dail faced last week may well have been a mortal...
With education splitting itself into more and more scaled pigeon-holes, such a revision would offer a broad and stable cultural sweep to the undergraduate. During his first year and a half at college he would gain perspective, he would study the field of human experience before tucking himself off in a corner of applied Biology or Urban Sociology. At the slight sacrifice of the choice of a few distribution courses, he would add a definite content to his liberal education upon which he can build...