Word: swept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musical mind and heart can convey to an audience. Richter-Haaser's approach, particularly in the "Appassionata," was heroic, his tone boldly ringing, his rhythmic drive irresistible. In the Stravinsky piece, he may have lacked the proper corky bite, but his Brahms had a propulsive, thunderous intensity that swept his audience into a roar of applause...
...uncomfortable Penn fans felt during the game that they had seen this same performance before, they were quite right. Two years age the setting, plot, and featured performer were all the same as they were today--only the supporting cast had changed. The spot was rain-swept Franklin Field, Philadelphia, and a Harvard team, fresh from a defeat at the hands of Dartmouth and in the midst of one of its worst seasons on record, was expected to be easy prey for the Quaker eleven. And the star, just as today, was Boulris...
Like an autumn gale the political winds swept through the U.S., stirred the blood of politicos in both parties, carried a week's heavy crop of political straws. Among the straws...
...Yacht. Despite the squeeze, hardly any banker is going to be beastly to a borrower. Reason: a great change has swept over U.S. banking. The banker whose thin lips seemed to be permanently fixed in a no has been succeeded by the banker with a neighborly twinkle in his eye. The soft sell has replaced the hard...
...Lulua warriors began by burning two Baluba villages to the ground and killing their inhabitants with spears and homemade muzzle-loading rifles. In the suburbs of Luluabourg, naked Lulua women swarmed through the streets screaming to their men to kill, kill, kill. Like a grass fire, murder and mutilation swept over an area of 40 miles until the number of deaths mounted to an estimated...