Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...useless if the U.S. did not fight Communism wherever it arose in Asia; 2) this meant backing Chiang's Nationalists, the British in Hong Kong, and the anti-Communists of Indo-China, Siam and Burma; 3) anything less than this firm, determined action would invite Communism to sweep over all of Asia...
...with the U.S., they can roll through Western Europe like a color guard crossing a parade ground. With Mao's Chinese armies to protect their rear, the Russians could throw the better part of their 175 divisions,* 25,000 tanks and 19,000 warplanes into a sweep to the Atlantic...
...House of Commons. When his motion was defeated by one vote (296 to 295), Churchill dramatically cast aside a prepared speech and gave the country a few hard facts. In the event of a new world war, said Churchill, the West has no present means of stopping a Russian sweep through Europe. Churchill said the Russians had 40,900 tanks. It was true, he said, that U.S. planes now based in Britain could hit Russian cities and key points with atom bombs, but the Russians would then seize airfields on the French coast...
...which, as U.S. military governor, he had ruled from October 1947 to January 1948. Burly, blond Bill Dean, commissioned in the Regular Army in 1923 after Reserve training while at the University of California, became a crack tactician in World War II, commanded the 44th Infantry Division in its sweep through Germany and Austria...
...Clean Sweep. In London, thieves broke into the Avenue Hotel, made off with 4,800 cigarettes, 140 bottles of liquor, a radio set, the watchdog...