Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...combined American-Vietnamese sweep called Coronado II, four battalions from the 9th and 25th Divisions were helilifted into the area; two others swarmed ashore from river as sault boats. The Americans' job was to link up with ten South Vietnamese battalions to make a 250-sq.-mi. rectangle surrounding the V.C. battalions. While the perimeter formed, two battalions of tough South Vietnamese Marines came clattering in by copter to flush out the quarry. By chance, the Marines landed squarely in the midst of a crack V.C. outfit. At once they were in a furious firefight and the Marine commander...
Boisterous Invasions. As in much of the rest of China, the trouble in Wuhan stemmed from the resentment of the Wuhanese at the boisterous inva sions of Red Guards from Peking, who sweep in and try to take over everything from the city government to factory management in the name of Mao. By wall-poster accounting, no fewer than 350 people have been killed and 1,500 seriously wounded in clashes in Wuhan since last April. A formidable foe heads the resistance against the Maoist intruders: General Chen Tsaitao, commander of the Wuhan Military Region and a distinguished career soldier...
...running time of about eight hours, cut to five and a half for the live production. This was obviously too long for a movie, and the time had to be further shortened by wholesale cutting to an hour and three quarters. Still, the film manages to capture the grand sweep of the classic tale of revenge, murder and retribution, though many qualities of the original are necessarily lost...
...permanent electric signs have been erected along the New Jersey Turnpike to flash warnings of fog and to cut speed limits. But New Jersey motorists may soon have a clearer view. By borrowing a discovery used to produce water in Chile, state transportation officials hope to be able to sweep long stretches of highway clear...
...worriers can rest assured that anarchy is not about to sweep over the country. Even those who are civilly disobedient are not protesting all laws, but just one that they believe unjust. The Antigones of the world are always a tiny minority anyway. Not only must they have conscience developed to an unusual degree, but courage as well. Few people can meet the necessary specifications. The world has always needed the few, though, even when they turn out to be wrong. Law and all social institutions need to be questioned and challenged. The great philosopher Martin Buber was fond...