Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only railway and onetime headquarters of the Ethiopian forces opposing Italy's southern armies, had been bombed to ruins. In the north, after the great battle of Enderta and its smashing sequel at Amba Alaji (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.), all Italy expected to see the Fascist troops sweep bravely on down the main caravan trail to Dessye and Addis Ababa. They did not realize that there were some 280 back-breaking miles between Italy's advance posts and Addis Ababa, that innumerable hordes of undefeated tribesmen still infested the route...
...telephones still dead. Newspaper plants were awash; broadcasting stations went silent for lack of power as operators scampered to higher ground (see p. 59). Hampered in their movements, forced to guess wildly at the extent of death and damage, overwhelmed newshawks sent reports marked by the breadth and sweep of war dispatches...
...despair, who has already seduced her sister and almost hypnotizes Dasha herself. Luckily for her she falls in love with the straightforward Telegin, an engineer whose only connection with the highbrow world is his menagerie of tenants, all left-wing esthetes. As first the War and then the Revolution sweep down on Russia, these human figures take on a more & more symbolic meaning. Though Author Tolstoi is careful not to make all his villains White, all his heroes Red, he loads the scales in favor of his Marxian cause-&-effect thesis. Sample: Dasha's baby dies because...
...kept him from invoking his Maker, he mentioned Him twice, saying: "The vision of the early days [of the U. S.] still requires the same qualities of faith in God and man for its fulfillment. No greater thing could come to our land today than a revival . . . that would sweep through the homes of the Nation and stir the hearts of men and women of all faiths to a reassertion of their belief...
...through China at staggering cost or whether the Japanese people disapprove the extravagant and risky militarism which has been the Japanese Government's main policy for the past four years. This central issue was so packed with dynamite-the politicians fearing that the militarists, if crossed, might sweep away all parliamentary institutions-that it simply was not raised. Only one issue of any sort reached the dignity of figuring in dispatches: the "Emperor Organ Issue...