Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flaying the "empty phrases and wheedling" of some German Communist leaders, Comrade Trotsky summoned the Red rank & file to sweep "Hitler dust" out of Germany by yet more furious efforts. Lest German Communists grow discouraged and be taken in by the pre tensions of Enemy Hitler who already talks as if he were sure to become Ger man Chancellor. Exile Trotsky warned: "In every war the enemy tries to exaggerate its strength to impress the enemy. Hitler is just as good a braggart as Napoleon was. but his pretensions will be come true only the minute that the proletariat takes...
...sort of hopeful national symbol. When the bad news got out, in many English mind arose the suspicion that no small part of the more than ?55,000,000 now frozen in German loans had bet to build German superships, su them, run them at a loss to sweep shipping off the Atlantic Ocean...
...Wisconsin Insurgent: 5. None of the three voted for himself. With the House, now Democratic for the first time in twelve years, standing and cheering, Speaker Garner in a brown-speckled suit was ceremoniously led up the new blue carpet to the rostrum, duly installed. With one autocratic sweep he swore in the whole House membership at once. Other Democratic elections: Henry Thomas Rainey of Illinois, Majority Leader; South Trimble of Kentucky, House Clerk; Kenneth Romney of Montana, Sergeant-at-Arms. Rules revision was temporarily postponed as some 5,000 legislative proposals were plopped into the bill basket...
...every year. Younger than many footballers (20) he is likely to follow his brother Everett to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship next year. Younger than Derryberry is rolypoly Herman Hickman, 230 lb., 19-year-old guard, who "once took out the whole side of an opposing line with one sweep...
...Parisian slums. A man called Offenbach sat back in his box watching he world dance to his thinking melolics. Some where off in a back room a cynic with a long nose was muttering, We dance, but we dance upon a volcano. In such fashion did the Second Empire sweep through...