Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bowler-hatted chimney sweep, Harry Cowley, 60, called "The Guv'nor," blew the lid off Britain's housing problem. In Brighton, jampacked seaside resort, a posse of 400 self-styled Vigilantes (all local war veterans), headed by Cowley, took the law into their own hands. Into three empty, habitable houses, they moved the families of servicemen. The moving was done at night, with hand barrows, in defiance of the law. But the tenants could not be ejected without lengthy eviction proceedings...
...structure will project 24 ft. beyond the ground level building-line. The interior of this huge upended cone will consist of a continuous, gradually rising, gradually widening, ramp picture-gallery ¾ of a mile long. A great glass dome will top the last wide spiral sweep...
...Francisco, Navy Secretary James Forrestal held a planning session with Fleet Admirals King and Nimitz. Also present was shy, calculating Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, commander of the Fifth Fleet, which has conducted most big Pacific amphibious operations in the sweep westward from Tarawa...
...Very, Very Sorry." Mr. King was plainly disgruntled. Said he: "I am very, very sorry. . . . The CCF sweep in Saskatchewan goes far to disclose how much of the [CCF Party's time] was being given to ... the winning of elections, while the Government and its followers were mainly concerned with making Canada's war effort as effective as possible...
...ring told U.S. interrogators: "In your aerial warfare you had a great ally - the FÜhrer." GÖring im plied that Germany would have won if the air war had been left to him, said that his Luftwaffe had developed a marvelous jet fighter "that was to sweep Allied bombers from the skies." Hitler rejected...