Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along the Alaska highway, past Whitehorse to Fairbanks; its delivery flyers whip fighters and bombers close to Bering Strait to be turned over to Russia for the eastern front. Freighters, and bombers on the way to combat, cross central Canada to Greenland, Iceland, Britain. They blanket the Caribbean and sweep across Mexico. They fly down both sides of South America...
From the "Eight Ball II" on an Antwerp sweep, Army Air Forces Captain Clark Gable got his first Fortress-eye look at Europe, manned no guns but "learned a lot." He also nearly froze his hands, having nullified the protection of electrically heated gloves by wearing a leather pair underneath. Captain Gable is the gunnery officer of a new Fortress group expected to start operational flights soon...
...Moley, losing only one game, took their number one man in two short sets. Captain Don Daniels won two out of three sets to hoist another marker for the Crimson netters. Both Jack Lynch and Charlie Greenspan were forced into three sets to win. Tom Baker completed the singles sweep by an 8-6, 6-0 triumph...
...singles men teamed together to sweep the doubles match from the Tech men. The contests took only two sets and attested to the effectiveness of the Crimson doubles combinations. The Harvard netters added the Red and Grey to their collection of scalps which includes the University of Maine, Andover, Exeter, and Tufts. Members of the squad will travel to New Jersey in June in a bid for individual honors in the Intercollegiate Tennis Tournaments...
...solidarity has been strengthened in every conceivable way. The Government has brought the Emperor and the Empress out of their sacred palace and had them mix with the people, inspecting hospitals, factories, troops, schools. The Emperor always appears in uniform, the Empress in dowdy, old-fashioned black robes that sweep the ground as she walks. Premier Tojo also helps by keeping himself in the public eye. Ordinary Japanese do not hear of Jap defeats. They hear only of victory, and they are very sure that Japan is winning...