Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they found trenches, pillboxes, antitank ditches. They also found begrimed, bone-tired soldiers and Luftwaffe officers scrambled in irregular detachments. And they found enormous numbers of antiaircraft guns with their wicked snouts now leveled, dug-in tanks with their deadly 88s, machine guns aligned, almost tripod to tripod, to sweep the highways. Perhaps...
...Netherlands, the Canadian First Army found nothing easy. In Arnhem, infantrymen had to battle for every house. But in the Canadians' sweep to the North Sea, resistance virtually ended with the fall of Groningen...
Polish troops were almost within sight of Emden. At the bottom of the sack, west of Bremen, the British Second Army ran into what Allied airmen had once called "Flak Alley." Now the massive concentration of antiaircraft guns was leveled to sweep the roads. Few gun crews gave up until all their shells were fired...
...mile after mile of smashed industrial sections, of ruined homes, of buildings broken, and broken over & over again into brick dust. Then suddenly you are past the last stretch of rusted junk that used to be a railroad yard, and you begin winding over the superb wide roads that sweep into the German uplands beyond the Rhine...
...fact was that WPB had no intention of freeing industry at one sweep from its tight web of controls. Instead the controls will be lifted a strand at a time. This decision was made when it became plain that no one man knew how many U.S. soldiers in Europe would have to be completely re-equipped before they were transferred to the war in the Pacific...