Word: sweeping
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Bolshevism was mentioned. "It was like hitting Hitler with a torpedo. He assumed the platform manner on a small scale, the toss of the head, the laugh of scorn, the sweep of the hand. Only the snarl was missing. 'I have only one fear,' Hitler said. 'It is that the countries around us, into which the poison of Bolshevism is eating its way, will succumb to the Red wave one after another. Moscow is seeking to dominate Europe. We shall never permit that...
...just as the Communists misjudged their standing with the electorate, they misjudged their allies. The United Peasants and the Democrats, both of which aligned with the Communists after World War II, began pondering their own future in light of Solidarity's sweep. Some of their Deputies began arguing for a break with the regime, to build a political base independent of the Communists in time for the next elections. On July 19 the National Assembly elected Jaruzelski as President, but only with the help of seven senior Solidarity parliamentarians. Eleven Deputies from the Communist alliance voted against...
That sentence, appearing in TIME magazine 50 years ago, reported the start of a cataclysm that would ultimately sweep across five continents and change the world forever...
This June, for the second time in four years, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to narrow the sweep of civil RICO, preferring to leave the matter to Congress. Not surprisingly, that ruling recharged ongoing legislative efforts to reform RICO's civil provisions. Among the broad coalition pressing for changes are some of the very groups that have recently attracted the attention of prosecutors: accountants and securities and commodities dealers. Says Waldman: "It's a combination of The Untouchables and Showdown at Gucci Gulch." The congressional shoot-out to determine what happens to RICO could come this fall...
...able to maintain affection for their subjects throughout, mounts a spirited but finally too conventional defense of Shaw's late work and life. The prose was always better than that of Judith Krantz and her ilk, Shnayerson notes, even in the most improbable tales. Moreover, he argues, the glittering "sweep" of these 71 years in themselves represents an artful construction, worthy of the sometimes numbing detail with which he recites old guest lists...