Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These savage herders and fighters last week roused their sheiks in British-mandated Transjordania to urge a single wild cavalry sweep into Palestine to massacre Jews and Britons. Mild Emir Abdullah Ibn Hussein, who holds his throne by the favor of Britain, tried to soothe his sheiks while the Emir's son, Crown Prince Talal, whipped them up to a fighting frenzy...
...Scutari, Flo and her charges sweep the dirty corridors, poison the rats, reduce the death rate from 42% to 2%. Ably publicized by the London Times correspondent (Ian Hunter), their efforts infuriate the chief physician (Donald Crisp) who considers female nursing a sin & a shame. Flo goes to the front hospital at Balaklava, catches cholera, gets back to Scutari to find most of her good work undone. She does it over again, returns to London, gets from Queen Victoria a brooch and the recognition which has been her aim: that women are worthy to be wartime nurses and that nursing...
Three of the crews went down the river below the bridge for the first time yesterday and observers noted that the spacing has shown a marked improvement and Roger Cutler is fitting in well on the No. 2 sweep...
...some semblance of form and purpose to this potentially worthwhile group; publicity could be issued daily, and a congress elected to discuss just what the Harvard Chapter of the Liberty League was going to do. This last might prove the only obstacle to a movement which should, by rights, sweep across the country like "The Music Goes 'Round," or the recent yo-yo fad; but just as lack of leaders cannot be allowed to deflect the stream, lack of a plan should be lightly brushed away until officers were elected and salaries discussed to the satisfaction...
...Italian gestures are characterized by a wide, symmetrical sweep from the shoulders. Furthermore they are symbolic. The gestures have definite meanings, many of which can be traced back to antiquity. . . . For this reason Italians are able to converse in pantomime without uttering a single word. Their posture is characterized by an easy relaxation of the shoulders and a strong forward curvature of the back. At the same time the elbows are held backward...