Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blueprint expert, Chris Jensen leaves fine details to his staff of engineers and Navy officers, runs the yard and its more than 2,000 workers on a "let's try it this way" basis, hits his best form in emergencies. When the flooded Minnesota threatened to sweep away the big administration building in June, Chris Jensen had 120 jacks thrust underneath, raised the building three feet in twelve hours to let the muddy waters sweep underneath. The office staff kept on working...
Added starters: ten Christmas carols, some of the great German chorals whose sweep and power make them ideal for congregational singing. Many an old hymn has changed its tune. Hymns that were too high-pitched for most singers have been set in a lower key. Except in cases where the hymn is one of praise or prayer, Amen has been dropped from endings...
Morning came, overcast above, brilliant in the streets. As early as 8 o'clock, Ottawa's people began to move toward the broad sweep of greensward in front of the Parliament Building. At first they came by twos and threes. As noon approached, every street leading to the plaza had become a solid, slow-moving river of humanity. Soon, as far as the eye could see. even the rooftops were crowded...
...What guided the Germans to put Norway under virtual martial law? To make fresh demands for collaboration from Denmark's stubborn government? A mounting wave of sabotage? Or fear of an Allied sweep across the North...
...Nolan bought Irish Hospitals sweep stakes tickets with the windfall and sent half of the counterfoils to Saroyan. Nei ther won anything...