Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Southerly Swing. Unlike the Russian Sputniks, which sweep close to the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, the Explorer follows a sinuous orbit around the earth's middle, crossing the equator at an angle of about 34° and coming only as far north as Atlanta. At its highest point (apogee), the orbit rises to 1,700 miles above the earth, descending to about 200 miles (perigee). The round trip takes 114 minutes. This is a "safe" orbit, above nearly all the drag of the atmosphere, and higher than the orbits of the Russian satellites...
Young made a clean sweep of Central's board (including such "goddam bankers" as two descendants of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and the head of J. P. Morgan & Co.), brought in Alfred E. Perlman from the Denver & Rio Grande to run the road. The Central was one of the most heavily mortgaged U.S. roads and in terms of its heavy and unprofitable passenger traffic one of the least desirable. But Young talked as if his mere presence would banish trouble and nurture prosperity. For a while, it seemed as if Young would repeat the success he had with the coal...
...Democrats get the slightest hint that domestic programs are being cut in the interests of a balanced budget, the real yelling will start. With a good chance to make a Congressional sweep in November, the Democrats won't be missing a trick, particularly on such tangible programs as housing, conservation, farm supports, and school construction...
...among more than 200 architects from 17 countries (including the U.S.'s Frank Lloyd Wright and France's Le Corbusier), a prize of $13,000 went to a pair of French architects for designing a latticed pagoda shaped like an inverted ice-cream cone. Large ramps will sweep up to the shrine's two entrances; there will be space for 20,000 pilgrims within the cone's 400-ft.-high walls and 36 little chapels around its circumference. Last week Christmas crowds of pilgrims, many in flower-decked processions, swelled collections for the shrine to over...
Following horrifying news reports of the trial, many Frenchmen hoped that the case would lead to a clean sweep of France's antiquated pharmaceutical laws. On trial was not only Pharmacist Feuillet but in effect the French Ministry of Health, which had tested Stalinon and allowed it to be marketed. One official coolly explained to the court: "We have only about two minutes on the average to examine each new product submitted." He claimed that "nothing was wrong" with the way Stalinon was approved and that "the same thing would happen again, and we would again issue the permit...