Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeking to measure the meanings of the cold war, the U.S. and its allies have lined up many opposing concepts-freedom v. slavery, opportunity v. conformity, godliness v. ungodliness, and so on-to define and dramatize what the struggle is all about. Last week the global sweep of the news added up to another concept: namely, law and justice v. authoritarian rule, two 180° opposites ranged against each other across organized land masses of freedom and serfdom. In the reports out of Budapest, Panmunjom, Washington, the operative word was justice; the question welling up, the debate accumulating, the pressure...
...happy-go-lucky migrant workers in the flimsy canvas-topped truck were a typical grab-bag assortment from among the 12,000 Deep South Negro laborers who annually sweep northward with the spring to range through North Carolina. It was green-bean-picking time, and this Florida-recruited group had spent some three weeks in the state sweating through the day to feed the canneries, bedding down at night like nomads-men, women and children-in a temporary camp near Mount Olive. Now, en route from the camp to the fields at Dunn, they were rocking along nine miles from...
...sooner had the Amherst furor died down than the academic world began to hear more from Alexander Meiklejohn. Under the benevolent eyes of the University of Wisconsin's new president, Glenn Frank, he set up a two-year experimental college for men at the university that promised to sweep away all sorts of cherished traditions. The students-all volunteers-heard no formal lectures, got no grades, took no examinations. Instead of studying separate subjects, each isolated from the others, they steeped themselves in a study of Athens' golden age their first year, U.S. industrial civilization the next...
...entry to the Persian Gulf. In 1955 a fifth column of Saudi Arabian agents with oil-glazed eyes was busily subverting the sultan's power and touting the claims of the euphonically titled Imam of Oman. Four British-officered armies of the sultan set about trying to sweep the Imam out of Oman...
While the Republican vote has been slipping for Congress in the West--seven percent in California, eight percent in Colorado, and 14 percent in Oregon, since the 1952 elections--the Democrats have progressed on the state level as well. In Arizona and Washington they made a clean sweep of state offices, while in New Mexico, Montana, Oregon, and Colorado they captured all but one. The Democratic Party also either captured or held one or both houses of state legislatures in eight Western states. In Colorado they won both houses for the first time in twenty years, in Oregon...