Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only two more years because of fatty degeneration of the heart, beamed contentedly. Cabled Correspondent Zinder of Suleiman's lair: "Grim hills step giantlike across rich, fruitful valleys, their sides scarred and pocked by huge, overhanging boulders and ledges. In the morning, mists backed by fresh winds sweep swiftly across the hillsides, casing them in pale blues. Villages hang precariously, hacked out of pure stone. In such surroundings, only local power and force can hold sway; only the number of rifles a tribe can muster means anything. It is no wonder that Suleiman, as a slim youth tending...
...feared that his Government would 1) set up the vastest and most hopeless charity scheme in history, 2) earn the usual unhappy reward of the starry-eyed benefactor, 3) make the U.S. people so tired of serving as international milch cow that a new wave of isolationism would sweep the country. Last week brought signs that such fears can be forgotten...
...recognize the sweep and power of the emotions in time of war and crisis, and the rights ... of individuals and groups to agitate, organize and promote their own particular programs. This is and must be the essence of a democracy...
...Daily Herald, speaking for the Labor Party, hoped the new Viceroy. Lord Wavell, "will sweep away the pompous trappings of the New Delhi Court and establish contact with the real life of India. . . . The British Government itself must take a hand. ... It must resume the initiative; reopen negotiations with representatives of the Indians; shake off the weary fatalism in which it has persisted ever since the Cripps talks failed...
...Girls Go To It. At first, for lack of surgeons, Seagrave let the nurses help. "As fire began to sweep the town" (one of the many to which Seagrave moved his base) "we returned to our operating tables. ... I simply could not locate the bullet in the thigh of one of our Chinese patients. 'Here, let me have a try,' said Koi. She inserted one tiny finger in the wound, using it as a guide for a long forceps, and out came the bullet! 'Listen, woman, what are you helping me for? You take over this table...