Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is, of course, no danger that Adolf ("Bubi") von Thadden, 48, the party's aristocratic, articulate leader, will sweep into power-or anywhere near it -in next Sunday's general elections; after all, there are but 30,000 card-carrying members. Von Thadden's goal is far more modest: to poll at least 5% of the national vote, the minimum required for representation in the Bundestag. Even that prospect alarms many Germans, who are concerned about the bad name the N.P.D. is giving their country abroad. Anti-party banners proclaim N.P.D. = ATHLETE'S FOOT...
...Israeli tankers. The next night, landing craft carried them without opposition across the gulf to the Egyptian coast. Laden with extra fuel, extra guns and extra ammunition, the Israelis swiveled off the landing craft before dawn. They achieved total surprise and inflicted heavy casualties on their 40-mile sweep down the coast. As the convoy moved south through El Hafayer, trucks pulled off the two-lane asphalt highway with friendly waves to make way for what appeared
...most difficult feats in acting is to play, in tandem, the rival roles created by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. Two such matching pairs exist to test the sweep and sinew of an actor's craft: Marlowe's Jew of Malta and Shakespeare's Shylock, Marlowe's Edward II and Shakespeare's Richard II. The last actor to play the two Jews on successive nights was Eric Porter at Stratford on Avon in 1965. Now, for the first time since 1903, the two kings are being doubled in repertory by an English actor named...
...Penn Central Company's second bid to build a $100 million office tower above Grand Central Terminal. To build it the company would either have to destroy Grand Central's facade (a superlative example of the ornate Beaux Arts style and a splendid climax to the long sweep of lower Park Avenue) or crowd it with a bland, impersonal slab set only 30 feet behind it. Either plan, the commission ruled, was unacceptable in a city already too poor in dramatic vistas. The commission's decision is legally binding, but Penn Central is expected to contest...
...Willots are driven by two ambitions. One is to build a modern Europe-wide textile empire out of the fragmented French industry, which suffers from creaking methods, ancient machinery and nepotism. The other ambition is more personal: to sweep out the grandes families of northern France who have dominated French textiles for many decades and look down their noses at such commoners as the Willots, who did not get beyond trade school. "They are out to conserve," explain the Willots. "We are out to conquer...