Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe very many others also, am very grateful to TIME for its coverage and evaluation of news. We who are so often too close to the drudgery, the incompetency, the inhumanity and uncharitableness of war too easily overlook the significance and sweep of affairs in which we play parts, though they be very minor ones. TIME illumines the too shaded areas...
Harvest Army. Already the wide north ward sweep of the harvest has begun in Texas and Oklahoma and is moving for ward like an army with its flanks spread wide. By late June it will reach Kansas, then thresh slowly up from the heartland of the U.S., until by September it spends itself on the windy prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta...
...element, I suddenly found myself working alone. My two pals just gurgled and dis appeared under the water." In those early hours Rangers had gone ashore in LCTs under cover of darkness. At one point, atop a 200-ft. cliff, were six 155-mm. guns which could sweep the sea approaches. The Rangers shot a grappling hook to the top of the cliff. One of them climbed a rope hand over hand, carrying rope ladders which he made se cure. Up swarmed the Rangers; took the gun positions, knocked them out with TNT. Infantry. On the heels...
...clear afternoon you can see the wide sweep of the Bay, from the Marin hills to the ship-clogged docks of the Embarcadero, watch great grey convoys moving out the Golden Gate. At night city lights gleam far below, the first fighting men have seen in many months...
Sweepers. Across the Channel another fleet moved-an ungainly motley of fishing trawlers, old coal-burners and new, specially designed craft. Their dirty, dangerous chore: to sweep the waters clear of mines. They moved with care, ploughing the Channel in straight furrows towards the coast, where midget submarines for the past three days had laid out beach markers. They went to work...