Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Athens reported heavy troop movements and concentrations in Yugoslavia's Vardar Valley, north of Greece. It seemed likely that all such activity would stop before the Security Council investigators could get within gunshot. If Greece's northern neighbors should hastily sweep everything under the rug, it would be up to the investigators to lift...
...state convention in out-of-the-way Wausau, C.I.O. moderates ousted the left-wingers who had run the show since 1937. Out went party-liner Robert Buse, leader of the bloody, 33-week Allis-Chalmers strike (TIME, Nov. 11). In a bold sweep, the right-wingers captured all top offices and 15 out of 26 seats on the state council. The new president: Milwaukee's Herman Steffes, right-wing head of U.A.W.'s Local 75 at the Seaman Body division of Nash-Kelvinator...
Preoccupation with their own advanced theories has caused most professors to overlook the simple needs of the unenlightened undergraduate. to sweep the elouds from their lectures, the Department's top-flight men must recognize the student's dilemma through the use of various teaching methods and techniques such as understanding which park of the course proves most troublesome and anticipating any questions...
...before Allied soldiers breached Festung Europa at Normandy, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt stubbornly argued over who would occupy the industry-rich Ruhr. After the invasion, Churchill's claim was reinforced by the top-level political and military decision to give Field Marshal Montgomery command of the sweep along the lowlands toward northeast Germany. Roosevelt finally yielded, let Churchill have the Ruhr...
...must get an iron broom and sweep our party house clean of this garbage. The refusal to be worried about human beings ... is a malady which still ails a good many leaders of our party organizations. ... If you scratch these pseudo-moralists, you will find plenty of hypocrites and humbugs among them. You'll never cook your porridge with a lot of gravediggers like this...