Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conversations. When the British obviously had Rommel on the run in Egypt last November, "Sitting On The Fence" voiced the national sentiments in a dialogue between Gubbins and The Chimney Sweep...
Bill Palson led the list of Harvard high-scorers, capping the 1000 at 2:26.4, while his teammates Tim Coggeshall and Cliff Downer followed closely in the same event in a brilliant sweep which put the Crimson well out in the lead. Substantial scores had already been piled up by Jack Hunter and Eddie Smith by their action in the hurdles, plus the swift stepping of Moe Young in the dash...
...able to go gave rise to a curious reaction in Britain and the U.S. Many voices, some nervously, some skeptically, asked the question: Just what kind of victory does Russia want? The question arose from two mutually contradictory fears. One group seemed to fear that the Red advance would sweep to Russia's old borders and stop, leaving the German fox still dangerously alive, the Allies holding a still-empty bag. The other group feared that the Red advance would sweep to and perhaps beyond the Rhine, that all Europe would be Bolshevized...
...days later, lurking in the same waters, the Wahoo sighted a fat Jap convoy. First a freighter was sunk, next a troop-jammed transport, then a tanker; finally, with the Wahoo's last torpedo, a second freighter. The sweep was clean. Later the Wahoo, its supply of torpedoes gone, had to let another convoy pass unharmed. Said Lieut. Commander Dudley W. Morton, skipper of the broom-flaunting Wahoo: ''When you have no torpedoes you sure feel naked...
...Germans advanced, Moatsie and the other correspondents were evacuated to Kuibyshev. She made Correspondent Quentin Reynolds sweep the floor of her compartment. But things were no better in Kuibyshev itself. The plumbing was terrible. Moatsie shampooed her hair, and the Iranian Ambassador had his servant fetch water from the Volga to rinse it. Moatsie gave in. For months she had struggled against the sex prejudice that had tried to get her out of Moscow. Now, she exclaimed to the press bureau chief: "Do you think I am crazy enough to stay on in a place where there...