Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between July 28, 1956, when the 84th Congress adjourned, and Jan. 3, 1957, when the 85th Congress convened, an avalanche of events had changed virtually every recognizable feature of the world landscape as seen from Capitol Hill. The U.S. returned Dwight Eisenhower to office in a devastating sweep-but for the first time in history a re-elected President would be confronted by a Congress controlled by the opposition. Crisis in the Middle East strained and stretched (but did not break) the historic alliance with Britain and France, even while crisis in Poland and Hungary demonstrated to the world anew...
...southern sweep of the big semicircle centered on Maracaibo, Peru was redoubling an oil search in its eastern jungles; Texas Petroleum Co. last week reached the 10,700-ft. level in its third test well on the Marañón River. Peru put particularly heavy hopes on the prospects in the trans-Andean jungle. Only last month the government sadly announced that not a drop of oil had been found in four years of drilling the once-promising Sechura Desert on the Pacific Coast. Though still a producer (from the waning field at Talara), Peru will have to import...
...bottleneck was at the Alton (Ill.) lock, just below the point where the Illinois River, fed in part from Lake Michigan by way of the man-made Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, joins the sluggish Mississippi in its 2,350-mile sweep to the Gulf. There, as many as 200 Chicago-bound barges were stalled at one time this fall as the water in the lower sill, diminished by the four-year drought in the Mississippi Valley (TIME, Dec. 17), fell from its normal (9 ft.) level to a bottom-scraping 6 ft., thus forcing the carriers to lighten their...
...continent's center is a vast and featureless plateau 750 miles across and two miles high. And here, protruding into space, is the heartland of the antarctic's terror, the vat where much of its wrath and weather is brewed. Over this plateau sweep winds from distant seas, and here snow crystals have fallen like eider down, layer on layer, millennium on millennium. The meridians of the earth converge upon this great snow desert, closing in to pinpoint that half mystical, half mythical objective of adventurers, scientists and explorers, the South Pole. At the Pole the temperature...
...ground, in a whiteout, a man cannot tell whether a dark spot ahead is a distant mountain-or a matchbook cover on the snow 50 ft. away. When he looks down he may see his feet but not the surface that he stands on. And when the winds finally sweep the milky film away, they can drive the granular snow so furiously across the continent's face that static electricity is generated, and phantom flames dance eerily in the blinding drift...