Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barring a political miracle, it was the kind of ticket that could not fail to sweep the Republican Party back into power. What kind of an administration would it bring with...
...might give them big heads and a tendency to loaf next year. When his junior varsity won the next race, Al said: "I'd feel more confident if we'd dropped one of them. By the law of averages it's just impossible to sweep all three races." Furthermore, Ulbrickson had lately observed that his varsity oarsmen hadn't been rowing up to snuff. He didn't like that either...
Dangerous Rival. The Olympic rival that Ulbrickson worried most about was Harvard, which had its own private "sweep" last week. Coached by a scholarly ex-Washington oarsman,* Tom Bolles, Harvard set a new course record on Connecticut's Thames River to whip Yale for the tenth year in a row. This week, on Princeton's Carnegie Lake, N.J., the Huskies will face Harvard, Yale and eight other crews to determine who will row for the U.S. in the London Olympic games...
...result of her labors, TIME'S morgue is now the repository for a mound of such neat notations as this one: "12,000 city street cleaners daily sweep up, pick up and otherwise put out of sight about 5,000 cubic yards of stuff ranging from dead cats to a load of TNT, and including wallets, personal mail, laundry bundles and an occasional keg of beer, as well as the more routine paper and just plain dirt (an average 112 tons of soot cover a square mile of the city each month...
...Clean Sweep. In northern Galilee, where the Israelis were not opposed by Abdullah's Legion, they had swept out all Arab forces in "Operation Broom." Last week, in Palestine's oldest kibbutz (communal settlement) south of the Sea of Galilee, stood a fire-blackened Syrian tank, which the Jewish defenders had stopped with a homemade Molotov cocktail. A scorched trail led from the tank to the charred torso of an Arab tankman who had died trying to escape the flames...