Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then WPBoss Donald Nelson began to sweep up the mess. He gave OPA full control over sugar, offered the Agriculture Department a lone hand in fats & oils. With these two trouble spots cleared away, and the man behind the plow working as never before, the nation's prospects in the Battle of Food were looking fine...
With hatred of the Nazis seething through Norway, with Canadian and U.S. expeditionary forces on hand in Britain, Norway looked inviting as a diversion theater, to distract the Germans from other fronts, if not yet as the Allied road back. A sweep across northern Norway would give the Allies a common U.S.-British-Soviet front, might knock Finland out of the war. Joseph Stalin is anxious to get his allies into some nearby field, even if their foray fails. The mere threat of action against Norway had already immobilized some 200,000 German soldiers who might have been killing Russians...
Dropping but one of their thirteen games, the Deacons of Kirkland won the House volleyball championship yesterday afternoon when they beat Dunster by default to make a clean sweep of the league. Lowell and Adams tied for second, each winning five matches and losing two. There were three games to each match...
...week. But the object of such a move was very clear. From the Solomons the Japs could push southward to the New Hebrides and New Caledonia. They could then use the islands for basing raids against the vital U.S.-New Zealand supply route, or for a naval and air sweep against eastern Australia...
WASHINGTON--Mounting indications that Japan may halt her sweep down across the southwest Pacific and wheel about for an attack upon Russia tonight stirred urgent demands that all possible military aid be given to the Soviet armies...