Word: swept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lagged far behind U. S. public opinion. Hostility to Russia that swept up with the German-Russian Pact, that turned into contempt at weird Russian claims of Finnish aggression, flared to new highs, led to loud demands that the U. S. break off diplomatic relations with Russia. Said Senator King of Utah: "My country will no longer grasp the bloody hands of Stalin." Said Senator Vandenberg: "There is no rational alternative except to drive every trace of Communism and Naziism out of the U. S." Said Senator Russell of Georgia, "Of all the terrible incidents of this year, this...
...life can be brought to the perfection they seek. It is clear that Lord Halifax, while he may approve world union in principle, will oppose these very changes with all his power. Everything he and his party stand for--"reality," empire, and British hegemony--will have to be swept aside if world union is to come. It will be a tremendous job, but if the men who are trying it now are wiser and more far-sighted than those in the past, they will come just that much closer to it. They must certainly be wise enough to profit...
...mine field guarding the Thames estuary, and the British blockade patrol, were what originally forced neutrals to enter British waters for guidance and inspection. But now neutrals had even smaller chance of getting through until British sweepers cleared the German mines and British pilots showed neutrals where the swept channels were...
...object to fighting Germans in the name of Empire last week fought each other in the name of their various gods. Moslems, claiming the Manzilghaut (Government building) near the river as an ancient mosque site, besieged it, captured it, and threatened to hold it until nirvana-come. Whereupon Hindus swept the city, storming, looting, burning Moslem shops...
After the lunch hour, having swept her schoolroom, and put Mercurochrome on Gaylyn's cut finger, Miss Campbell found the going harder than in the morning. When Johnny, during a history lesson, remarked: "It sounds kind of goofy," Miss Campbell was shocked, said severely: "I don't think that's very good English." During a sluggish geography lesson that followed, Miss Campbell lost her temper, pointed her pencil, said grimly: "Listen, Doris, you go back and read slower and don't make any mistakes. You're getting to be a terrible thinker...