Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...janitors moved in to sweep up, 41-year-old Howard Robard Hughes fired a parting blast: "When Senator Brewster saw he was fighting a losing battle against public opinion, he folded up and took a run-out powder . . . headed for the backwoods of Maine. There was no reason for the other Senators ... to continue his losing battle ... if he was too cowardly to stay here and face the music...
...Because the Dictator lacked the ships, he was unable to attack the rebels by the river route. Slowly his ill-equipped troops plodded across country. Just short of Concepción they were blocked by the Ypané River barrier, and not until last month did they sweep into Concepcion. Morínigo cried that the war was as good as over. In shabby Asunción, factory whistles shrilled salutes to victory...
...famous, and his curve doesn't bend so sharply. But he manages to hide the ball more expertly: it comes up at a batsman out of nowhere as "alive" as an eel and just as hard to get hold of. Besides getting extra leverage from his wide sidearm sweep, Blackwell's awkward motion keeps enemy batsmen loose at the plate-just in case one of his pitches gets out of control. The third man to face Blackwell in the All-Star game was Boston's Ted Williams, who just looked at a third strike whizzing...
...ambitions work. The chief addition is Cyril Ritchard, who plays Tattle, described in the program as "a half-witted bean, vain of his amours, yet valuing himself for secrecy." Favored with the most rewarding role, Ritchard struts about, using always the right high-pitched tone and the right decadent sweep of his silk handkerchief...
...would thus be put under military control but could not be fully armed or equipped. This mighty power, restricted in range and striking force by Russia's lack of long-range aircraft, is the nightmare that haunts U.S. military strategists. Russia has the power on hand to sweep to the Channel, to the Persian Gulf and the oil areas, to the southern extremity of Korea, or through China. Obviously it is not in Russia's immediate calculations to make any such vast move, which would certainly bring on World War III. Military men feel that only an accident...