Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...housecleaning was symbolic of a clean sweep that overtook Germany's whole political household in the huge (86% of all eligible voters) turnout of last week's general election. With one sweep of the electoral broom, some 28 million German voters had pushed aside all the troublesome, totalitarian splinter groups (including Communists and Neo-Nazis) that clutter most European politics, giving Germany alone of Europe's nations a workable two-party Parliament in the pattern of Britain...
...totalitarianism only to substitute a greater one. Germany is a nation addicted to strong men, and Adenauer's victory had been in many ways as personal a triumph as that of Eisenhower in the U.S. ten months before. Left-wing Germans were quick to charge that the Adenauer sweep had raised the possibility of his becoming another Führer. The Germanic equivalents of "I told you so" echoed loudly in some quarters a day or so after the election, when the Chancellor let loose a blast at the Socialist-dominated Federation of Trades Unions, which had lined...
...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...
...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...