Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week New Broom Ulbricht began to sweep his party clean of the influence of those who had been contaminated by contact with Western freedom. Charging them generally with "lack of trust in the Soviet Union, in which no doubt is possible," he kicked six ranking Reds out of their jobs and out of the party. Ulbricht arrested all six on charges of conspiring with U.S. Relief Worker Noel Havilan Field, whom Ulbricht sneeringly described as "the American spy and merciful Samaritan." Field, a onetime Communist sympathizer who disappeared mysteriously in Central Europe last year (TIME, Oct. 24), has become...
...most mobile and therefore the most economical form of military force. For 3,000 years or more, navies fought on the two-dimensional ocean surface. The carrier-based plane gave navies the third dimension of the air. It has even given them a sort of fourth dimension-a sweep of 500 miles or more inland from any coast. Nearly all the economic and political power centers of the world lie within 500 miles of deep water...
...cornstalk that seemed in need of a haircut. It was broomcorn, the dry, tasteless straw from which 45 million brooms a year are made. As rapidly as the trucks drew up to the curb, buyers pulled test brushes out of the bales and began bidding. They made a clean sweep of the stocks, and sent the price up to an alltime average high of $400 a ton v. $255 last year...
...attack (the other four: Formosa, Germany, Yugoslavia, Iran). If Indo-China falls, all of southeast Asia is likely to go. The U.S. position in the Philippines would be outflanked. The weak governments of Burma, Siam and Indonesia could probably not long resist Communist pressure, and the Red tide would sweep to the borders of India. Indo-China may hold the difference between limited success and total disaster of U.S. policy and U.S. hopes in Asia...
...beachhead perimeter was taking on the likeness of a tough elastic barrier which yielded locally under pressure but quickly snapped back to upset the invaders. Said one commander: "If we had four new divisions this afternoon we could sweep straight through the enemy...