Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spare, but it did have a major asset named William George Penney. He was the man so securely flown to Monte Bello. Born 43 years ago in Gibraltar, the son of an army sergeant major, Penney got a top-grade education in nuclear physics by making a clean sweep of the best fellowships, including one at the University of Wisconsin. He worked at Los Alamos, sat in the observation plane (the only British scientist) when the third A-bomb exploded over Nagasaki...
Dunster held Adams in a defensive game where Adams generally tipped the offensive balance but was unable to score. Adams scored late in the fourth quarter on a Dunster fumble deep in Funster territory. Jack King made the Adams touchdown on a sweep around right with less than three minutes to play in the game...
...only be said that all readers seem to have been lost in its noble but confusing labyrinth. The old Spanish-Catholic belief in mystical authority came out in it; nothing could be less congenial to Western thought. Subjective philosophy, intuition, essence, had so thoroughly "gone out" that, while the sweep of Santayana's mind was admired, he seemed to be saying nothing seizable. His true role lay in being a civilized hermit on the adjacent hill, the sage apart, the skeptical psychologist. Loneliness and ecstasy were the distinctly nonmodern desires he recommended to Boston and the world...
...Texas Republicans went through a strange maneuver of their own. They endorsed the Democratic ticket for Senator, governor and all other state offices, hoping thereby to woo Democrats to Eisenhower and Nixon. The Republicans have high hopes for Ike's flying sweep across the state after a big 62nd birthday party in San Antonio...
...Opposition politicos kept asking embarrassing questions, e.g., How was it that some 25 Buicks and Cadillacs had been imported duty-free in the President's name? El Khoury tried to suppress the scandals, but there weren't enough rugs in all Lebanon to sweep the dirt under. He kept losing supporters. Lebanese resented the nickname their country was getting: the Baksheesh State...