Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East might organize the future better than the "decadent" technicians of the West. "Conviction has deserted the civilized mind; and a good conscience exists only at the extreme left, in that crudely deluded mass of plethoric humanity which perhaps forms the substance of another material tide destined to sweep away the remnants of our old vanities, and to breed new vanities...
...clean sweep of the 880-yard run--the last event of the meet--gave the freshman track team victory at Exeter Saturday, 64 to 67. John Richards, Phil Meyers and Al Joyce finished in that order...
...stop was San Francisco-and Douglas MacArthur's first view of the U.S. mainland in nearly 14 years. It was the strangest soldier's homecoming in history. He was a General of the Army, stripped of his commands and without assignment, yet the U.S. was waiting to sweep him up in tumultuous greeting all the way to Manhattan's ticker-taped Broadway. His words had brought public dismissal and rebuke from his Commander in Chief, yet the Congress of the U.S. honored him by arranging a special joint meeting this week to hear them, and the entire...
Truman used Greece as a shining example of his policy of geographically limited war. It might be useful to consider the new Truman principle as applied to Greece-if that civil war had turned out the way China's did. In this supposition, General Markos' Greek Reds sweep the mainland. The anti-Communist Greek leader, an unpopular but steadfast fellow called Apericles, retires with an army of several hundred thousand to the island of Crete. The Greek Reds, instead of going after Apericles, attack Turkey. The U.S. and the U.N. go to Turkey...
...material march. He is strong on the movement of trade, sometimes weak on the movement of ideas. As a result, he seems more at home in Rome than in Greece, more understanding of the clever, quarrelsome city-states of Italy ("The word imbroglio is hers") and the colonial sweep of Spain ("Next to God came spices") than of the Middle Ages. He hastens over Plato and Aristotle in a sentence, barely nods to St. Augustine, gives no indication at all of the significance of St. Thomas Aquinas...