Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of the supply miracle that had put the Allied armies on Germany's border continued to unfold. In London last week, Colonel Leslie Arnold, onetime Eastern Air Lines assistant to Eddie Rickenbacker, told how the ten-day sweep of General Patton's Third Army across France had been serviced by hundreds of cargo planes shuttling back & forth from England. In the last stages of Patton's rush, 50 gallons of high-octane aviation fuel had been required for every 100 gallons of ordinary motor fuel laid down for Patton's tanks and trucks-but, Arnold...
...Multimillionaire G.O.P. Oilman Joe Pew, political promoter who usually lets his money talk, made the first political speech of his career last week in Philadelphia. Said he: "We are going to see the greatest Republican sweep in history, from one end of the country to the other." He put doubtful Pennsylvania solidly into the Dewey column, adding: "President Roosevelt is not campaigning for himself, but for Senator Harry Truman, who he hopes to make the next President of the U.S. We will never stand for this...
...front, where Allied spearheads had pierced the fatherland, the Germans fought in fierce gusts of frenzy, and with high military skill. The U.S. First Army held the spotlight on this front, as it widened and deepened its salient north of Aachen. The aim was for a breakthrough that would sweep the Germans back to the Rhine-but the pace was grinding and generally slow. For the time, at least, it was a painful battle of attrition. At several points west of the Rhine, the German counterattacks forced the Allies to back up, to grope for new footing for the next...
Traffic disturbances are forecast as the procession swings down Massachusetts Avenue as far as Holyoke Street, where it will be joined by more men emerging from their Naval Organization examination. From there the throng will sweep down Holyoke Street, then turn up Mount Auburn to Holyoke place, up to Lowell House, back to Holyoke Street, and then finally to the steps of the Athletic Building...
...mile-and-a-half-long bridge was the task of American paratroopers who were landed south of the town. They found the Germans in command of both the north and south ends of the coveted bridge. Close by the bridge was open space-the tree-lined Hunerpark. Commanding its sweep was a red-brick tower: old Fort Belvedere, a relic of Charlemagne's reign. The lower floors of Belvedere had in peacetime housed a tea room, its tower had been a tourist lookout. Now Belvedere was a fort again. Out of its doors and windows stuck the ugly snouts...