Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Radio Stars." The new radio telescopes furnish just such vital guidance. They can sweep the sky, detecting waves coming from "radio stars"-often galaxies which are in collision and generating enormous amounts of radio energy...
...city by the trolley and rapid-transit services, and then by the automobile, hoisted gradually by a strengthening economy, the new middle-income families swept beyond the gates to buy homes of their own, from which they could commute to their jobs. When World War II ended, the sweep to the suburbs turned into a stampede. The veterans came home, the legion of war workers burst out of crowded city quarters, and in battalions they set out to find homes where the land was greener and cheaper. New settlements spread across acre upon acre; small, sleepy old towns were inundated...
...Reno, "by the determination of the delegates to make up their own minds. They're resentful of the idea that they're sewed up." Commented South Dakota's big-voiced Governor Ralph Herseth after a whirlwind Johnson visit: "He made no attempt to pressure us or sweep anyone off his feet. It should improve his position with our delegates...
...foreign aid funds, looked after the non-Lao tribes committed to his care so solicitously that the pro-Communist Pathet Lao forces were unable to make any inroads in his territory. According to Laotian cynics, he is perhaps the only anti-Communist Laotian politician who would win by a sweep in a free election...
...suggested that the Democrats could best negotiate with the Russians. "The Administration has acutely embarrassed our allies and endangered our bases," said he. "They have helped make successful negotiations with the Russians-negotiations that are vital to our survival-impossible so long as they are in power. We cannot sweep this whole sorry mess under the rug in the name of national unity...