Word: unswept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marble-topped table, in an unswept, musty cafe, I sat discussing the meeting with the three anti-Communist members of Parliament who were scheduled to speak that evening. One of them, tall, hawk-nosed Vince Nagy, former Minister of Interior in the Károlyi Government after World War I (no kin to exiled Premier Ferenc Nagy), said: "A few days ago when [Dezsö] Sulyok, head of our party, said in Parliament there was no freedom of speech in Hungary today, the Communists called him a liar...
Dirtiest city: Indianapolis, "unkempt . . . unswept . . . a terrific place for basketball . . . auto racing . . . the American Legion...
Thus this week the peril of mines added to its toll of more than 6,300 lives taken since war's end. The toll would surely rise; there are still hundreds of thousands of live mines in unswept fields close to main shipping channels. The danger of floaters would remain for many years. Greece, Sardinia and Sicily were almost surrounded by minefields. Off the Channel coasts and The Netherlands and Denmark, near Eire and Iceland were thousands of mines. The U.S. coasts were believed to be swept clean...
Like a Tornado. The wartime U.S.A. that Dos Passes saw on his trip was unaware of its own achievements. In Port land, Me., the business district looked as if a tornado had struck it. "Everywhere litter and trash, small gimcrack stores, small unswept lunchrooms. . . . There were signs and cigaret ads instead of goods in the shop windows. The shipyard workers lived in half-slums, in trailer camps, in rows of prefabricated dwellings. When the shifts changed, the dense black crowd poured out through the gates, their faces gray and yellowish, their visored caps pulled over their foreheads, their thick clothes...
Ladies, Please! Rich or poor, black or white, married or single, women were so eager to sign up that many went without breakfast. Bosses waited in vain for secretaries, nurses arrived late and breathless at hospitals, dishes went unwashed and floors unswept. Some housewives had plans complete for Junior to stay with Grandma for the duration. One mother and daughter would not give their names for fear, Papa would find out. A Washington girl had just accompanied her boy friend to the Marines' recruiting office. A Philadelphia girl would not let photographers take her picture lest her sister find...