Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jagans sparked a bitter sugar strike in which five workers were killed. Founding the Progressive Party, Janet became secretary general and went from village to village making speeches and organizing study and propaganda cells. In 1951, her husband traveled to East Berlin. This year, after their April electoral sweep, Janet left her four-year-old son Joe with her husband and went first to Denmark to address the Copenhagen congress of the Communist-run Women's International Democratic Federation, then on to Rumania...
...CinemaScope adaptation of Lloyd C. Douglas' best-selling novel is alternately impressive, faltering, and finally disappointing. Despite the magnitude of such early scenes as the Roman slave market, the dusty plains of Galilee, and the splendor of imperial Rome, this wide sweep of spectacle lacks meaning without a devout testament of faith...
...character in front of a gnarled tree whose splayed branches conveniently fill the excess space. Success by gimmick can only occasionally be used, otherwise it becomes obvious and annoying. This consideration would seem to proscribe the use of CinemaScope for the filming of epics. The Robe, with its Biblical sweep, is easily adopted to the requirements of the large screen. It is doubtful, though, that this medium could be used successfully with intimate boudoir comedy...
Though P. & G. still turns out some 500 million bars of Ivory Soap a year-enough to give everyone in the world four baths-Tide was soon revolutionizing the washday habits of the U.S., and the tide of revolution began to sweep soap flakes and granules on .to the back shelves. Among the hardest hit was P. & G.'s own Oxydol, long a top national seller with the devoted followers of Ma Perkins. Distressed at their falling sales, Oxydol men scurried to the P. & G. research people who had caused all the havoc by their development of Tide. Could...
...Around Us. The Technicolor camera prowls the ocean floor: some beautiful scenes, but lacking the majestic sweep of Rachel Carson's 1951 bestseller (TIME, July...