Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With our backing and support it can do more than save China from Communism. If can set in motion a force that will sweep Asia...When we stand behind the liberal and progressive forces in other countries. We become in the eyes of the peoples of the world, identified with their interests. Then the democratic cause will gain strength and character. Then the flood tide of Communism will begin to recede...
...member of Alcoholics Anonymous told the industrialists: "We welcome the people who sweep out your office as well as the vice president or general manager who is swept...
Their prototype was Hans Heinrich Lammers, an old man of whom few Germans and few Americans had ever heard; yet on every Third Reich decree his name had appeared, in a bold, inch-high sweep below the scrawl "Adolf Hitler." In his defense Lammers claimed that, as chief of the Reich Chancellery, he had merely acted as a sort of "notary public" or "glorified mailman." The prosecution thought otherwise. Next to Hitler, Lammers had been one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany...
...biggest & best collection of borrowed art since the loot Napoleon had brought home to the Louvre from his conquering sweep of Europe. And it was even better guarded. In Washington's National Gallery, blue-coated guards in reinforced numbers paced the corridors. Military policemen stood in every room. But the 202 paintings they were guarding (estimated value: $80,000,000) were not loot, though they too had been brought back by conquerors (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946). All but two-a Daumier and a Manet-had once hung on the walls of Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Museum...
Cornwall, Dr. Deacon has an instrument that continuously measures the weight of water above it. As the waves sweep in from the North Atlantic, it records them all-big & little-on a strip of paper. Dr. Deacon studies the strip at his leisure. The ordinary visible waves do not interest him much. What he is looking for are long slow "swells," their crests 30 seconds apart, that cannot be detected except with the wave recorder...