Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Choked Throats. As the dusters sweep in, visibility sometimes falls to zero. During bad storms, traffic ceases, lights go on in such hard-hit towns as Garden City, Kans. or Lubbock, Texas. Farmers and townspeople seek shelter and wait while dust seeps remorselessly through every crack of window and door and drifts in the fields and streets outside...
Dartmouth's John Glover, John Heyn, and Joe Hust will be Yale's strongest challengers in this sprints, but the Elis figure to sweep the dive and free style relay...
...good free stylers. Mac Aldrich, Joe Burnett, John Schafer, and Ken Abbey are only split seconds behind Donovan. They will give the Elis both top places in the 50 and possibly the 100, as well as practically a sure victory in the final relay. The Blue also figures to sweep the 440, with John Phair and Bob Fleming backing up Smith...
Then in his Southern accent he launched into a rapid-fire sermon. In the last five years, he said, "we have seen the greatest religious wave in our history sweep the U.S. Arthur Godfrey now talks about religion on television." By the time he wound up, with George Beverly Shea, a member of the Graham team, singing his own composition, I'd Rather Have Jesus Than Anything Else, most of the knife-thoughts had been washed out of the newsmen. A woman reporter found him completely disarming. "He seems to have the sincerity, ingenuousness, the sort of simple charm...
Before German Novelist Theodor Plievier brings Moscow to a close, the "wonder" touch has passed from Hitler to Stalin, and the scope and horror of modern war has been described with a combination of pitiless detail and powerful sweep by the best novelist who has written on World War II. Plievier richly earned that rating with Stalingrad (TIME, Nov. i, 1948), and while Moscow is not so dramatic as his earlier story, it is the kind of book that leaves a residue of flaming images in a reader's mind. The second volume of a trilogy...