Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Empire's last stand. Never had a sea battle's stakes been so high, never so many warships involved, never such fierce fighting over such a vast expanse of trackless ocean. It was in fact four great battles, waged with every known naval weapon, majestic in its sweep, but complex and even controversial in its detail. Both the sense of sweep and the drama of detail are to be found in color maps with accompanying text...
...from 53 to 100 seats. Liberals, on the strength of their 1,600,000 popular vote, forecast with eager optimism that they would soon succeed Labor as the chief opposition party -a prediction that overlooked the fact that more than 40% of British voters stuck by Labor through the sweep. But the fact remained that for Britain's 53-year-old Labor Party it was a staggering defeat, threatening to open never-healed wounds, confronting Labor's leaders with the hard fact that Britain's citizens want no more socialism...
...didn't realize it." Avery had hobbled the entire firm with his one man rule (he had to okay every expenditure over $100), and knocked employee morale to the bottom. Net sales dropped from $1.1 billion in 1950 to $999 million in 1954. Barr set out to sweep out gloom, bring on a boom...
...literature and humor of immigrant life no longer seem as real or timely as they once did, but a kind of folklore remains, and in it Hyman Kaplan has an unshakable place. The secret of his greatness is the relentless sweep of his untutorable mind. A brooding Kaplan caps a lecture on etymology with the thrust, "Aren't eny voids in English fromm England?" Here is the man to bandy homely inapposite proverbs with a Khrushchev: ''Som pipple can drown in a gless of vater." It is he who gives the principal parts...
...spire of Memorial Church broke the leafy roof of the Yard. Flying from Bedford to Cambridge and back takes only a few minutes, but it offers a delightful perspective on the University's architecture and layout--the bold patterns of Quincy and Leverett Towers, for example, and the pleasing sweep of the riverfront Houses...