Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pretty Much the Same. From all over the world came reports that Rotary was doing things. Often, what it did seemed so puny as to be almost insignificant in the vast sweep of world affairs. It had, for instance, brought 57 young students from 18 nations to study together in Sweden. It organized a blood-bank program in war-torn Korea. It sent a young Pakistani to make friends in Washington's Yakima Valley. It is sponsoring an international network of radio hams. Its magazines had kept Rotarians in Kenya, Viet Nam and Trieste posted on the activities...
...could match the skill of such later Wild West witnesses as Remington and Russell. The human figure bothered him; he tended to make it too squat. He used colors more like a mapmaker than like an artist. But Catlin had the crack journalist's eye both for significant sweep and significant detail. And without being dazzled by the romance of his magnificent adventure, he felt and expressed it keenly...
...Clean Sweep. In Wheeling, W. Va., ordered to "clear Market Street of bums," Rookie Patrolman Arthur McKenzie went to work, sent packing a banker, two insurance executives, a detective, two city councilmen...
There is no story here. What Celine attempts is not a story but a panoramic sweep of impressions which will present the human being in time of crisis. In the literal sense the crisis is war, but Celine really aims at portraying the unending crisis of living...
...Wash, plant one sunny day last week to see their swept-wing 707, the first U.S. jet tanker-transport, get ready for her maiden flight. As they watched, Chief Test Pilot Tex Johnson gunned the four engines from an idling whine to a full roar, let the big jet sweep down the runway at 80 m.p.h., then eased on the brakes to test the 95-ton plane's ground response. After the first ground run, Tex gave his opinion: "A lovely ship." But Tex spoke too soon. Taxiing slowly after the fourth high-speed run, Johnson felt a shuddering...