Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coast make the slow convoys easy targets. To meet this threat, Russia's air force opened an offensive against airfields, repair shops and fuel depots tucked in the folds of conquered Norway, flanking the Arctic route. The Russians said that 40 Nazi planes were destroyed by the first sweep, while Soviet flyers kept on probing deep into fjords and valleys...
...tunes, like grass fires, usually start in a small way. Somebody plays them. Somebody hums them. Suddenly they catch on and sweep the country. Glenn Miller introduced Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree last February. Two and a half months later, it led in sheet-music sales, radio performances and on the Lucky Strike Hit Parade. At New York University, music students voted it one of the two popular songs most likely to outlast the war (the other: Buckle Down, Buck Private). This week it was sweeping the Army camps. Its catchy chorus, which sounds like a swing...
...blue day, but not Yale's color. With monotonous regularity, first their freshman, then their junior varsity, then their combination (freshman and varsity subs), and finally their varsity oarsmen were trounced-each by three lengths or more. For the fifth year in a row Harvard made a clean sweep. For the seventh year in a row. Harvard's varsity made Yale's look like a jerkwater crew...
...wasn't really a clean sweep. Racing Friday afternoon, a group of Harvard substitutes, paced by 150-pound Frank Cunningham, bowed to a similar Eli group over a gruelling quarter-mile course. Veteran observers, however, said if the course had been stretched to a half, a Harvard victory would have ensued...
...Varsity nine meets Dartmouth at Hanover this afternoon in a double-header which the Crimson will have to sweep to advance in the League standings. At present, the Indians are in third, 71 points behind the Varsity...