Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...echoed Malenkov's bid. They were followed next day by Molotov, who first held out the olive branch, then knouted the West for "blackmail . . . with the so-called hydrogen atomic bomb, which does not exist in fact." He wound up by promising that a new world war would "sweep away imperialism from the world." Much to the outside world's surprise, Number 1 himself, who usually brings the election ritual to its climax, remained silent...
...beginning of Leroy Anderson's Harvard Medley, there is a low, swelling sweep of sound from the trombones and basses that blends into "Harvardiana." It is a quiet, powerful theme, and it starts you thinking about the crowds walking back across the Larz Anderson Bridge and the sound of a cocktail party mumbling across a quadrangle. They are good thoughts, and it was good of Radcliffe to bring them back last night...
With the Red sweep in China, all the warm-water ports on China's coast became available to the Soviet navy, and Russia became potentially a sea power in the Pacific. To turn the potential into reality, Russia has been building warships, especially submarines. U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Forrest P. Sherman recently listed Russia's submarine strength...
...business to sell peanuts at ball games, reasoned practical President Paul Fagan of the San Francisco Seals: "It costs us $20,000 every season to sweep up peanut shells." One day last week, underestimating the power of the peanut, Paul Fagan announced he was banning its sale in Seals Stadium this summer...
After war service as a parachutist in the Normandy invasion, the Battle of the Bulge and the sweep across Germany, Todd acted again in Dundee, then made his first film for a British company. That impressed Director Vincent Sherman, who won his reluctant consent to star in The Hasty Heart. Explains Todd: "I had too many ideals, I didn't realize then what films get away with...