Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...witty and Gallic, Stockhausen is ponderous and Teutonic. The piece is based on an exceedingly complicated schedule of ratios, educations, and formula borrowed from the forbidding world of electronic music. What the uninitiated listener hears is a strange web of sound, frequently frightening and dense as all five instruments sweep from one extreme of their range to the other at top speed and volume; occasionally chilling, as a solo instrument attacks a note suddenly and disappears into a long silence...
...which Prince Rainier was to celebrate his engagement to Grace Kelly. Without a thought that she could have been an honored guest at the ball, Tebaldi went over to the Waldorf lobby, settled herself in a chair and sat there wide-eyed, waiting to see Grace and the prince sweep...
...revealed. A floor fight for the Democratic Attorney General nomination had raised the issue of bossism and threatened to turn the Convention into a free-for-all. The Republicans were convinced that they had the issues and the candidate--George Fingold, the only man to survive the 1956 Democratic sweep...
...moon's gravitational field. Only during three days of each month-and within that period, only during 18 fleeting minutes of each day-were the earth and moon in such relationship to each other that Pioneer, precisely fired and guided, would pass ahead of the moon, sweep slowly into her field and take up an orbit (see below...
With so many races being contested so closely, the bloody Midwestern battleground offers chances for a congressional sweep by either party. But in the old Republican heartland the Democrats are now clearly running horse races instead of turkey trots in district after district-and the Republicans can no longer count on these historic precincts to make up for deficiencies elsewhere...