Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggesting that the U.S. would find itself with some $35 billion in extra cash if the Treasury would raise the price of gold i.e., devalue the dollar. Then, as the theory goes, the U.S. could use the $35 billion to set up a stabilization fund to let European countries sweep away currency restrictions. This plan has been vigorously attacked as adding to U.S. and world inflationary trends. It finds little or no favor among Ike's advisers. But they are deeply concerned about how to lower barriers to world trade, and nonconvertible currencies are a serious barrier. (The tariff...
...that was long ago, but the horrified Republicans could not forget it. Throughout the campaign they hollered self-righteously, and insisted that even office holidays were violating the same law. After No members 4 indignation teased and the winners proclaimed the staff of The Big Sweep. But only last week the broom came to a half; there was a dusty corner that could not go because if it did, then Eisen-hower's Secretary of Defense would go along with...
...thing, nor against politicians who also have a business which they must lead to success . . . their re-election . . . Institutions do not change because men do not change. The day after the greatest catastrophe in our history [the fall of France], we had lost sight of this truth; the clean sweep gave us the illusion that everything would be rebuilt anew. I who have never placed hope in politics trembled with hope in that moment. And here we are in the same ruts we were in 13 years ago; the coach rattles more, the horses are thinner and the flies...
...counterman told Joe he would have to eat in the kitchen. "I was awfully hungry," Joe said later, "so I went back there to the kitchen. They put me at a little table near the sink. The dishwasher splashed soapy water on my food, and someone started to sweep the floor and made a dust cloud." Joe was terrified. He plunked down the price of his meal, dashed out through the front door, and ran without stopping all the mile and a half back to the college...
...with reporters. On stage, center, is HARRY TRUMAN, in snappy dark blue suit, with a blue pocket handkerchief peeping out of his breast pocket, matching his blue silk tie. Around him, PHOTOGRAPHERS and NEWSREEL MEN cluster. They have been specially invited by the President to give the broadest possible sweep of publicity to what...