Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaders. Ably, Dwight Eisenhower and his Secretary of State have applied American principles to scores of crises around the globe. But each crisis has been met within the limits of its own circumstances. The leaders have not ade quately connected the crises one to another with the sweep of America's suspenseful destiny...
...associate director of press, radio & television for the United Lutheran Church in Amer ica, broadcast his list of the ten top religious news stories of 1955: 1) the illness, recovery and vision of Pope Pius XII, 2) Christian missionaries released by Red China, 3) Evangelist Billy Graham's sweep of Western Europe, 4) Dictator Peron's "failure to choke Argentine Roman Catholics," 5) Princess Margaret's stand for the "indissolubility" of Christian marriage, 6) Lutheran heresy trials, 7) collapse of negotiations for the proposed merger between northern and southern Presbyterians, 8) indecision in some church leadership following...
WRESTLERS SWEEP TECH...
...sector of the Radical Socialists, some ex-Gaullists, and the small U.D.S.R. But without the Socialists it would be a front without depth. The Communists, who captured one vote out of every four cast in 1951, were also wooing the Socialists with talk of a new front that could sweep them back into a position of major power...
...says Philby, his tyranny has tightened. Whenever his subjects, usually students and other sons of traders enriched by his extravagance, have shown signs of political restiveness, the King has invoked his father's stern Moslem laws to repress them. To Philby, who saw Ibn Saud's tribesmen sweep the deserts in their puritanical Wahhabi zeal and fury, this is the surest sign of the regime's decay and advancing doom. Says he: "The fountain of Arab chivalry has been fouled with oil; and the mouths of the preachers and the prophets have been stopped with gold . . . Where...