Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came the thunderclap. On the eve of the 1940 Republican Convention, Franklin Roosevelt appointed Republican Henry L. Stimson to head the War Department, Republican Frank Knox to be Secretary of the Navy. The move had obvious political advantages to Roosevelt, but he was also mindful of Hitler's sweep through Europe, and wanted the services of Stimson and Knox. It would be hard to tell who was angrier: the Republicans or Johnson. But he was still nursing another ambition: to be Vice President. Two weeks after the first blow fell he was shunted aside again at the Democratic Convention...
...Today but Tomorrow. Communism in Italy was fishing diligently in the troubled waters of economic discontent. But it had no present hope of the great catch which seemed within its grasp a little more than a year ago. Then it had threatened to sweep the national elections and engulf democracy. Now it was in retreat, fighting guerrilla actions, terrorizing farmhands, harassing production, sniping at the Christian Democratic government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi...
...boorish and heartless exhibitions of snobbery, Captain Donald F. Smith's conduct in connection with "Miss Quonset Point" [TIME, May 2] ranks among the more nauseous of modern times. Courtesy to a "sweep-woman" could not possibly have besmirched his dignity as his act has besmirched the Navy...
...county contests (TIME, April 18). All week, on successive voting days, 7,000,000 Britons went to the polls in Britain's first district and borough elections since 1947. All week, the chant of London newsboys sounded to Laborites like the voice of doom. "Socialists lose 15 towns . . . Sweep takes Stoke-Newington . . . Birmingham captured...
Hope of gaining the anything near 60 points rests to a great extent on the Crimson weight men and javelin throwers. John Thorndyke, Howie Reed, and Larry Ward would have to sweep the hammer; Jeff Tootell and Don Trimble in the shot, and Tootell in the discus would have to wrest at least six points from Yale aces Jim Fuchs and Vic Frank; and Charlie Kelth and John Holbrook would have to win six or eight points in the javelin...