Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even the Terror could sweep the men, ideas and institutions of the French past into a forgotten dust heap. The French Revolution, unlike the American and Russian Revolutions, was not left to work out its destiny in remote solitude. France's pre-Revolutionary success had made it the center of the world. What happened at the center concerned all. Within the souls of Frenchmen, and outside the borders of their country, the counter-revolutionary pressures mounted. The tumult of the irresistible crunching against the immovable made constructive thought impossible...
...Pace estimated that his order would sweep some 20,000 noncombatant troops into combat "spaces." He hoped to produce another 20,000 fighting men by hiring civilians to take over clerical and quartermaster jobs in Army camps, the equivalent of 20,000 more when Congress extends the service of draftees. Out of the total of 60,000 men released from rear-area jobs and the training pipeline, Pentagon planners hope to get two extra fighting divisions, bringing the Army's combat strength to 20 divisions, plus 18 regimental combat teams. Counting the hundreds of separate battalions (antiaircraft, field artillery...
...federal Civil Defense Administration gave an answer designed to take much of the mystery and Sunday-supplement terror out of the subject. CDA's main point: disease germs are valuable as a military weapon, and may be used in war, but no man-made pestilence is likely to sweep the whole...
...into a 14-hour-a-day career. He bounced around town like a loose basketball to attend meetings, sport events and dinners, perform good deeds and hear complaints. Borrowing from one of his political idols, the late Fiorello La Guardia, he would don a whitewing's uniform and sweep a street or peer owlishly from a Toledo newspaper in Indian headdress. When Michael of Rumania stopped at Toledo three years ago, the ex-king remarked with amusement that everybody called the mayor "Mike.'' "If more people called you Mike," replied Di Salle, "you might still be king...
Yale and Army may sweep the 440-yard freestyle. Marshall, Moore, and McLane obviously should place one-two-three for Yale. The fourth Eli, Frank Chamberlain, will battle Craigie, Joe Knittle, and Dexter Smith of Army. Harvard's Berke and Jones of Williams are the remaining two most likely to break into the finals. Crimson sophomore Dick Fouquot is the second Harvard competitor...