Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seats in the House away from the Republicans. They were leading in the fight for 12 more. They were leading in all 11 contested Senate fights. This meant that Dewey was not getting big enough majorities anywhere to pull other Republican candidates along with him in a major sweep. It meant that the 80th Congress was getting thumbs-down from the American people. At 1 a.m. Truman was still in front. At 2 a.m. his popular majority had grown while his electoral probability had dropped. Nobody knew just how it would all come out. But it looked very much...
Alarm clocks then began ringing, and a siren wall went up. The loudspeaker replied to this with, "Communication between entries of Lowell House is strang verboten." Firecrackers started exploding, and a searchlight from a fourth or fifth story room began to sweep the courtyard...
...Symphony No. 4 (Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). Not as well known as the Fifth ("New World"), but, in Bruno Walter's hands, it has much of the same melodic sweep and power. Performance and recording: excellent...
...second race, however, the Annex sailors threw a scare into the Harvard team, as they copped second, fifth, and sixth place. But the third race was just like the first, resulting in another Harvard sweep...
Also behind at the half, the Mastodons poured over two quick touchdowns, one on sheer power plays, and the other after an intercepted pass by Roger Pugh. Rossiter went over both times first on a buck and then on an end sweep...