Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broader sweep of diplomacy Ike concentrated on patching up and cleaning up the Western alliance. Throughout the despair of Hungary-Egypt, he had taken his stand on the ramparts of moral law and the U.N. (TIME, Nov. 12), and now these were the ramparts behind which the free world could most safely range itself to face down the new Soviet threat...
Invaded South. The notion of the Republican Party (below Ike), as a wilting minority is statistically without base, even though both Ike and G.O.P. strategists were shocked that the avalanche did not sweep in a Republican House and Senate. East of the Mississippi no Democrat unseated a Republican House incumbent-and West of the Mississippi no Republican unseated a Democratic incumbent. Outside the South. Republicans carried at least 193 congressional districts; the Democrats carried fewer than 130. The Republicans cracked all traditionally Democratic ethnic and religious blocs except (amid the Israel crisis) the Jewish. In the South, every...
...Brandeis abhorred the philosophy of insurance which obscured the individual's responsibility in the 20th century," Freund continued. He refused to accept the idea that "great historical dooms" sweep man's attempts aside...
...winless Crimson JV football team dropped another at Princeton Saturday, 19 to 6. The lone Crimson score was tallied by fullback Tony Marlow, while Princeton tailback George Maye accounted for all three Tiger touchdowns. Marlow's score came early in the first quarter on a 22-yard sweep around end. A few plays later, Maye evened the score on a four-yard dash. A Crimson attempt to regain the lead on Bob Foster's field goal try from the 35-yard line as the first half ended was unsuccessful...
...dealers. Protests General Electric Co. Executive Vice President Roy Johnson: "We don't believe that only the full-line appliance manufacturers will survive this race. Some small company may come up with a new feature, like a waterless machine that would vibrate the dirt out of clothes, and sweep the field...