Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their mountain positions elsewhere were set for siege. They had dug in for months. But in the center, the First was edging on to the plain of Tunis. If the hills beside it could be cleared-and some of them were cleared last week-then the Allies could eventually sweep to Tunis, divide or further compress the defenders, and drive the remnants into...
...sweep and tempo of Allied air attacks on Axis Europe increased last week. Bombers from Britain were over France and the Low Countries; over Czecho-Slovakia, East Prussia, the Baltic seacoast, southern and northwestern Ger many; over factories making planes, tanks, dyes, submarine parts, aircraft motors, artillery, ammunition. Russian four-motored bombers roared out of the dark ness over Poland to batter the power stations and railroad centers at Königsberg, in East Prussia; and the machine-tool plants, warehouses, chemical factories and shipyards at Danzig on the Baltic...
...Common Man. "America's No. 1 Curmudgeon, or Sour Puss" was born (1874) in Pennsylvania, the second of seven children. "I was raised to dust and sweep and wash dishes and knead dough and baste the beef and turn (and burn) the toast and flip flapjacks. ... I was pinch-hit nursemaid, wood chopper, fire builder and tender, chicken executioner-more useful than ornamental...
...Sweep Two Mile, Vault...
Harvard's mragin of superiority was provided by its domination of the field events. The Crimson dropped only the shot and the high jump, scoring a sweep in the broad jump and taking a first and a place in every field event. Harvard's only other sweep came in the half mile, as Henry Mason led teammates Ben Coggins and Ward Slingerland to the tape...