Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hungary was a vestigially feudal country when the Communists took it over in 1944 in their sweep toward Vienna. The conquerors' remedy was the one Lenin had prescribed for Russia: speedy industrialization. With the same ruthless disregard for human life which characterized Stalin's carrying out of the Leninist injunction, they pursued this end: farmlands were collectivized, workers brutally regimented, living standards depressed. Last week, in a swift move that had overtones of the great Moscow turnabout of the '20s, the Hungarian Communists reversed their program...
...feeling that he should ease up, share his leadership or even retire. "Far from taking on additional burdens," editorialized the London Times this week. "Sir Winston Churchill should be seeking to lighten his normal load . . . His service to the nation must now come from his incomparable experience, the sweep of his judgment and his flashes of vision, not from a detailed application, however stimulating, to departmental affairs...
...ideas, explained them in terms his countrymen could understand, sharpened his own opposed principles, and expressed them with clarity and passion. Jean Jacques Rousseau, in his naivete, believed that man had been all good in "a state of nature," and that he was only corrupted by wrong social institutions. Sweep these away, substitute institutions blueprinted by "reason," and man emerges perfect or, at least, readily perfectible...
Samuel Eliot Morison, the Navy's Boswell, has reached mid-1944 (and Vol. 8) in his projected 14-volume U.S. naval history of World War II, and the Pacific war takes on a grander sweep and a faster pace. For two years, General MacArthur's forces have been straining to break the Bismarcks Barrier. In the nibbling operations in the Gilberts and Marshalls, the Marines have taken a successful but costly bite at Tarawa. Meanwhile, the Navy has been unable to engage any large part of the Japanese fleet since Midway...
...component parts: 1) Independent, ex-Republican Morse, whose term in the Senate does not expire until 1956, will run for Senator in 1954, on the Democratic ticket and against Republican Guy Cordon; 2) if Morse wins, his pull on independent and liberal Republican voters might also sweep a Democratic governor into office; 3) Morse would resign his present Senate seat to take on his new one, and 4) the Democratic governor would appoint a Democrat to fill Morse's unexpired old term. Dreamy objective: a Democratic sweep in Oregon for the first time since...