Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hung with the show were passages from Elisofon letters. Sample: "I went on two bombing missions. The first was a sweep on the lookout for Axis shipping. ... I got into a Mitchell's nose. . . . We fan across some shipping. The tankers were escorted by two Axis destroyers. ... I was so petrified by seeing the flak coming up towards us ... that I made practically no pictures over the target. I have no shots of the destroyers or the flak. It was all I could do to get the single shot of the tanker through the nose of the plane...
With such a ticket in the field we would sweep the country, wipe out every trace of New Dealism, return to normalcy and establish an administration which, while nothing to be exactly proud of, would certainly bring about a surprising degree of harmony. . . . Here's a ticket we zoo-percenters can stand on in the brave new world ahead...
...dented Japanese helmets and other war mementos sent him by some 70 ex-customers now in the services (he spends an hour a day writing to them). The floor is covered with candy wrappers, bottle tops, memos he writes to himself and periodically dumps out of his pockets. ("We sweep out, the joint on Thursday, but last Thursday we missed.") The war bonds he has purchased are tucked between the keys of an old cash register, the drawer of which is filled with small camera parts, screws and whatever. But all his customers admire his business principles. The most Luhnar...
...Long Island's Belmont Park, Count Fleet romped off with the Belmont Stakes for a clean sweep of America's five spring specials for three-year-olds. Just as in the Wood Memorial, Derby, Preakness and Withers, there was no one to press the colt that started his racing career last summer as the fastest two-year-old of all time...
...water, for the greatest war of the world is on the way. . . . One little island known to you will be a first prize of war. It will fall into the hands of the conquerors without a gun being fired in its defense. Treachery delivers it easily. From there they sweep on to islands whose beauty is known all over the world...