Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even to tolerate crucifixes and robes. Enraged, Culture Minister André Malraux turned on Boulloche, snapped: "Neutralization in teaching does not exist." At one point, De Gaulle firmly reminded his quarreling ministers, "We are no longer under the Fourth Republic," warned them that an impasse in the Cabinet could sweep it out of office. To Boulloche he said, "I understand your conscience but think also of the Fifth Republic and the regime." Finally, fearing that Boulloche's resignation might lose De Gaulle the support of the left on which he depends for his Algerian negotiations, De Gaulle told Debre...
...Wentworth. One fine fall day they set out on a picnic in the precipitous Big Sur country south of Carmel. Scrambling along the cliffs, they came upon a finger of land that thrust out into the Pacific in lonely grandeur. To the south, they could see a 40-mile sweep of coastline. Six hundred feet below, sea lions barked on a small white sand beach. As they sat on a massive rock lunching on peaches and champagne, they decided that when they were married this would be the place for their home...
...France, the De Gaulle government's equivalent of the Small Business Administration works hard to modernize the small shops, sweep away the prejudices against middle-sized and big entrepreneurs. Says France's Economic Planner Jacques Rueff: "I want to open the windows and let in some air." Even the bankers are loosening up: medium-term credits for business are on the rise, consumer credit is climbing fast. Britain removed its credit restrictions in late 1958 and watched consumer debt jump 50% in 1959; France had no credit to speak of ten years ago, now counts more than...
...Clean Sweep. In Milwaukee, when the Milwaukee county board discovered that 15 volumes of its records were missing, Courthouse Janitor Harry Stys sheepishly returned them, explained that he had borrowed them to check the voting record of his opponent in the election race for, county board supervisor...
...after he became the No. 1 draft choice of the National Football League (selecting team: Los Angeles), Halfback Billy Cannon, 22, Louisiana State's sprinting strongman (6 ft. 1 in., 207 lbs., 100 yds. in 9.4 sec.) completed his sweep of football's two highest honors by winning the Heisman Memorial Trophy as "the outstanding player...